https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27002
--- Comment #8 from Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2011-01-31 10:24:55 ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> I am curious, how do you know i hit that BUG_ON.
Because the dmesg output from 2.6.37 you posted has this:
kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:947
As the first line, and I posted line 947 of mm/vmalloc.c from a 2.6.37 kernel.
;)
> And if i may ask, before i send e-mail, are you sure this is VM component
> problem ?
> since :
> - regressing with that patch fix the problem.
Sure - you stopped XFS from using the path in the VM that is falling over.
> - this problem not occuring on other filesystem i tested, which is ext3, and
> reiserfs.
Neither of which use the vm_map_ram() interface, so won't be exercising the
problematic code path in the VM....
Cheers,
Dave.
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