Messages in this thread |  | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Date | Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:37:19 -0700 | | Subject | Re: [BUG] infinite loop in find_get_pages() |
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On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> wrote: > > Thanks, Eric, though it may not be worth spending your time on it. > It occurred to me over lunch that it may take painfully longer than > expected to invalidate_mapping_pages() on a single-swapped-out-page > 1TB sparse tmpfs file - all those "start += 1" restarts until it > reaches the end.
So can we have a stop-gap patch to just fixes it for now? I assume that would be Shaohua's patch with the "nr_found > nr_skip" change?
Can you guys send whatever patch is appropriate for now with a nice changelog and the appropriate sign-offs, please? So that we can at least close the issue...
Linus
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