Re: kswapd craziness in 3.7

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Tue Dec 04 2012 - 14:50:59 EST


On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 05:22:38PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 12/04/2012 05:11 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> >>>> Any chance you could retry with this patch on top?
> >>
> >> It does not apply to -next :/. Should I try anything else?
> >
> > The COMPACTION_BUILD changed to IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION), below
> > is a -next patch. I hope you don't run into other problems that come
> > out of -next craziness, because Linus is kinda waiting for this to be
> > resolved to release 3.8. If you've always tested against -next so far
> > and it worked otherwise, don't change the environment now, please. If
> > you just started, it would make more sense to test based on 3.7-rc8.
>
> I reported the issue as soon as it appeared in -next for the first time
> on Oct 12. Since then I'm constantly hitting the issue (well, there were
> more than one I suppose, but not all of them were fixed by now) until
> now. I run only -next...

Okay. Yes, it was a couple of problems, but not everybody hit the
same subset.

> Going to apply the patch now.

Thanks!
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