Re: 2.6.0-test6-mm2

[Bongani Hlope <bonganilinux@mweb.co.za>]

On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 02:23:41 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test6/2.6.0-test6-mm2/
> 
> . A large series of VFS patches from Al Viro which replace usage of
>   file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mapping with the new file->f_mapping.
> 
>   This is mainly so we can get disk hot removal right.
> 
> . More work on the O_DIRECT-vs-buffered data coherency problem.  It's
>   still not quite there.
> 

-mm1 had a lot of events/0 zombies, and vanilla 2.6.0-test6 does not. I will test -mm2 and let you know how it goes. Alt-SysRq shows this:

events/0      Z 77361907  1834      3          1836  1831 (L-TLB)
c46abfc4 00000046 cf901940 77361907 00000058 c5dfa080 00000011 77361907
       00000058 cf901940 cf901960 00011d32 77361907 00000058 cffeeaf8 00000000
       c5dfa080 00000000 c0124b60 c5dfa080 00000000 00000000 00000000 c01322f0
Call Trace:
 [do_exit+560/1040] do_exit+0x230/0x410
 [<c0124b60>] do_exit+0x230/0x410
 [wait_for_helper+0/224] wait_for_helper+0x0/0xe0
 [<c01322f0>] wait_for_helper+0x0/0xe0
 [kernel_thread_helper+11/12] kernel_thread_helper+0xb/0xc
 [<c010ae5f>] kernel_thread_helper+0xb/0xc

events/0      Z 77F25CBA  1836      3          2189  1834 (L-TLB)
c46bffc4 00000046 cf901940 77f25cba 00000058 c4691940 00000011 77f25cba
       00000058 cf901940 cf901960 000108dc 77f25cba 00000058 cffeeaf8 00000000
       c4691940 00000000 c0124b60 c4691940 00000000 00000000 00000000 c01322f0
Call Trace:
 [do_exit+560/1040] do_exit+0x230/0x410
 [<c0124b60>] do_exit+0x230/0x410
 [wait_for_helper+0/224] wait_for_helper+0x0/0xe0
 [<c01322f0>] wait_for_helper+0x0/0xe0
 [kernel_thread_helper+11/12] kernel_thread_helper+0xb/0xc
 [<c010ae5f>] kernel_thread_helper+0xb/0xc

events/0      Z CF386CA1  2189      3          2191  1836 (L-TLB)
c172ffc4 00000046 c5dfa6b0 cf386ca1 000006f9 c172cce0 00000011 cf386ca1
       000006f9 c5dfa6b0 c5dfa6d0 0001402b cf386ca1 000006f9 cffeeaf8 00000000
       c172cce0 00000000 c0124b60 c172cce0 00000000 00000000 00000000 c01322f0
Call Trace:
 [do_exit+560/1040] do_exit+0x230/0x410
 [<c0124b60>] do_exit+0x230/0x410
 [wait_for_helper+0/224] wait_for_helper+0x0/0xe0
 [<c01322f0>] wait_for_helper+0x0/0xe0
 [kernel_thread_helper+11/12] kernel_thread_helper+0xb/0xc
 [<c010ae5f>] kernel_thread_helper+0xb/0xc

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