Subject : [PATCH] regression: vmalloc easily fail. Submitter : Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> Date : 2008-10-28 20:59 References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122522755530998&w=4 Handled-By : Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> Handled-By : Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Patch : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122522755530998&w=4 This entry is being used for tracking a regression from 2.6.27. Please don't close it until the problem is fixed in the mainline.
Caused by: commit db64fe02258f1507e13fe5212a989922323685ce Author: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Date: Sat Oct 18 20:27:03 2008 -0700 mm: rewrite vmap layer Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Created attachment 18708 [details] proposed patch #2 for vmalloc regression This is the new proposed patch, I just sent to lkml. Please let me know if it is better than the previous one.
Handled-By : Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> Patch : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122609055221549&w=4
Ignore-Patch : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122522755530998&w=4
First-Bad-Commit : db64fe02258f1507e13fe5212a989922323685ce
Fixed by: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0ae15132a4f5c758a6ffcde74495641dc3f62ba1