Re: 2.2.13pre14 lockup caused by do_check_pgt_cache()

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:00:14 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Mike Black wrote:

>It looks like do_check_pgt_cache got stuck in it's loop. Not sure which
>path it was following but it looks like get_pgd_fast->get_pgd_slow does NOT
>always change pgtable_cache_size. get_pmd_fast does NOTHING, and

The design looks race free and the code looks ok to me.

>get_pte_fast decrements. I'm adding an escape counter inside the loop to
>test further...(and disabling SMP).

Ok.

Just to be paranoid enough check to have sane numbers here 8).

root@laser:/home/andrea > cat /proc/sys/vm/pagetable_cache
25 50

Andrea

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