Re: THP bug and crash on sparc64 3.8

From: Meelis Roos
Date: Wed Feb 20 2013 - 08:36:01 EST


> Ok I've written an alternative version of the fix that I've been busy
> testing all evening.
>
> I think it's much better and it's about to be posted as a series of 3
> patches.

Works much better. aptitude worked fine, as did 5 times
cp -a linux test; rm -r linux

However, "git gc" in a copy of the repository hung the machine hard,
nothing in the logs.

3.8.0 with THP disabled can run both cp;rm and git gc several
times without a problem.

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Meelis Roos (mroos@xxxxxxxx)
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