Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:40:30 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] mm: tiny-shmem fix lor, mmap_sem vs i_mutex |
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* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote: > > in 7 days that's about 7000 random bootups, 20% of which had TINY_SHMEM > > enabled, half 32-bit, half 64-bit x86. It did not blow up in any way > > that would have prevented the kernel from building its next random > > version from within itself and it did not produce any kernel messages > > with various random kernel debug, compile and boot options. > > Does anything in that workload actually use shared memory?
yes, X and a couple of other things i assume. It's the same test setup that found the lockdep assert - and lockdep needs actual use of the affected facilities.
Ingo
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