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SubjectRe: [regression] commit 6a4f3b52 causes invalid memtype

* Ali Gholami Rudi <ali@rudi.ir> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > > > >> commit 2463eb8b3093995e09a0d41b3d78ee0cf5fb4249
> > > > >> Author: Peter Zijlstra<peterz@infradead.org>
> > > > >> Date: Sat May 29 15:31:43 2010 +0200
> > > > >>
> > > > >> rbtree: Undo augmented trees performance damage
> > > > >
> > > > > Where can I get it? I couldn't find it either in
> > > > > Linus' or x86 repo tip.
> > > > http://git.kernel.org/tip/2463eb8b3093995e09a0d41b3d78ee0cf5fb4249
> > >
> > > It does fix it.
> >
> > Hm, interesting. That's a pure performance fix - so why does it fix a
> > regression?
> >
> > Does Peter's augmented rbtrees improvements fix a bug too, as a side-effect?
> > If yes then we need to accelerate that commit - right now it's aimed for
> > v2.6.36.
>
> Since the bug appears after commit 6a4f3b52, it seems to be
> related to the value of memtype->subtree_max_end. Peter's
> patch seems to change the way memtype->subtree_max_end is
> updated, which seems to fix the problem too.

Ok - i've cherry-picked it over into x86/urgent and it should go to Linus in
the next round of x86 fixes.

Thanks,

Ingo


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