Re: [long]2.5.44-mm3 UP went into unexpected trashing

From: Dipankar Sarma (dipankar@in.ibm.com)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 04:35:16 EST

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On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:22:07AM +0000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > Hopefully the rcu fix in -mm4 will cure this.
>
> Oh. It was in -mm3 too. But something went wrong with the
> dcache shrinking there.

Hmm.. the thing to do here would be to look at cat /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state.
The number of dentries in the system should tally with dentry slab,
if it doesn't it might be an RCU issue in which case I would like to
look at /proc/rcu. If not, then we need to do some more digging.

Thanks

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Dipankar Sarma  <dipankar@in.ibm.com> http://lse.sourceforge.net
Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India.
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