Andy Whitcroft wrote: > As reported by Adam Litke and Jon Tollefson one of the libhugetlbfs > regression tests triggers a negative overall reservation count. When > this occurs where there is no dynamic pool enabled tests will fail. > > Following this email are two patches to fix this issue: > > hugetlb reservations: move region tracking earlier -- simply moves the > region tracking code earlier so we do not have to supply prototypes, and > > hugetlb reservations: fix hugetlb MAP_PRIVATE reservations across vma > splits -- which moves us to tracking the consumed reservation so that > we can correctly calculate the remaining reservations at vma close time. > > This stack is against the top of v2.6.25-rc6-mm3, should this solution > prove acceptable it would probabally need porting below Nicks multiple > hugepage size patches and those updated; if so I would be happy to do > that too. > > Jon could you have a test on this and see if it works out for you. > > -apw > Looking good so far. I am not seeing any of the tests push the reservation number negative - with this patch set applied Jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
