3.10-rc ppc64 corrupts usermem when swapping

Hugh Dickins hughd at google.com
Fri May 31 15:05:23 EST 2013


On Thu, 30 May 2013, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Thu, 30 May 2013, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 13:57 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > > +               /* FIXME!!, will fail with when we enable hugepage
> > > support */
> > 
> > Just fix that to say "Transparent huge pages" as normal huge pages
> > should work fine unless I'm missing something.
> > 
> > Hugh, any chance you can give that a spin ? 
> 
> Sure, it's now under way.  If all goes well, I'll give you a
> progress report in about 15 hours time; but given the variance in
> how long it took to hit, I won't feel fully confident until this
> time tomorrow, when I'll update you again.

Still running fine.  I'll leave it running a few more hours to make
sure, and then try switching to the patch Aneesh sent afterwards -
or say if you'd prefer me to switch over to that one immediately.

Hugh


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