[opensuse-kernel] Re: 2.6.34-rc3: simple du (on a big xfs tree) triggers oom killer [bisected: 57817c68229984818fea9e614d6f95249c3fb098]

[Justin P. Mattock]

On 04/24/2010 03:30 PM, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> On Saturday 24 April 2010, 23:23:20 Emmanuel Florac wrote:
>> Le Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:44:22 +0200 vous écriviez:
>>> Greg, you might search for a server using xfs filesystems and and a
>>> i586 kernel>= 2.6.33, (2.6.32.11 of SLE11-SP1 will serve as well),
>>> log in as an ordinary user, do a "du" on /usr, and wait for the other
>>> users screaming...
>>
>> I did precisely that, and didn't notice anything special (du on kernel
>> source tree) kernel 2.6.32.11, deadline scheduler, 7 drives RAID-6
>> array, 8GB RAM.
>
> I guess, you're not on this specific openSUSE git version of 2.6.32.11 (e.g.
> the preparation for SP1 of SLE11), which, as usual, carries a lot of stuff
> from later kernels. The offending patch was included in linux-2.6.33
> between -rc4 and -rc5:
>
> Committer
> Alex Elder<aelder at sgi.com>
> Author
> Dave Chinner<david at fromorbit.com>
> Author date
> 11.01.10 00:51
> Parent
> xfs: Avoid inodes in reclaim when flushing from inode cache
> Child
> xfs: Remove inode iolock held check during allocation
> Branch
> master origin (Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/...)
> Branch
> 2.6.33.1 (Linux 2.6.33)
> Follows
> v2.6.33-rc4 (Linux 2.6.33-rc4)
> Precedes
> v2.6.33-rc5 (Linux 2.6.33-rc5)
>
> Cheers,
> Pete


is this bisectable?
from what I remember with 2.6.33
looking at the bugreports I don't recall
any issue in regards with firmware related stuff
for radeon(but could be wrong).

Keep in mind, I don't have your card, but I do have the X1600
which had no issues so far(running the latest HEAD).
does changing the .config work for you?
(in regards to what the thread I posted
had mentioned)

as for the open suse SP1 of SLE11..glad there is
an option to load the latest kernel.

Justin P. Mattock