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

[Dave Chinner]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 09:27:40AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 06:44:22PM +0200, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> > FYI, 2.6.33.2 is still affected from this issue. 
> 
> Is 2.6.33.3-rc2 affected?  A lot of xfs patches are in there (as are in
> 2.6.32.12-rc2.)

The fix is not in Linus' kernel yet, Greg. So once that is done,
I'll have to backport the fix back to those stable kernels as well.
It's not a trivial fix, so it will miss this round of stable
releases....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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