On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:39:19PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > But there's not a lot of recent stuff. The thing that jumps out is Mel > Gorman's recent commit cc9a6c8776615 ("cpuset: mm: reduce large > amounts of memory barrier related damage v3"), which has a whole new > loop with that scary mpol_cond_put() usage. And there's we had > problems with vma merging.. > > Dave, how recent is this problem? Have you already tried older kernels? I tried bisecting, but couldn't find a 'good' kernel. I Went back as far as 3.0, before that I kept running into compile failures. Newer gcc/binutils really seems to dislike 2.6.x now. Dave -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>