Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:19:01 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: clear pages_scanned only if draining a pcp adds pages to the buddy allocator again |
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:16:10 -0400 kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com wrote:
> commit 2ff754fa8f (mm: clear pages_scanned only if draining a pcp adds pages > to the buddy allocator again) fixed one free_pcppages_bulk() misuse. But two > another miuse still exist.
This changelog is irritating. One can understand it a bit if one happens to have a git repo handy (and why do this to the reader?), but the changelog for 2ff754fa8f indicates that the patch might fix a livelock. Is that true of this patch? Who knows...
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