On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:55:09 +0000 Chris Clayton <chris2553@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 11/29/12 10:52, Chris Clayton wrote: > > On 11/28/12 23:52, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 23:09:46 +0800 > >> Jiang Liu <liuj97@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >>> Subject: Re: [RFT PATCH v2 4/5] mm: provide more accurate estimation > >>> of pages occupied by memmap > >> > >> How are people to test this? "does it boot"? > >> > > > > I've been running kernels with Gerry's 5 patches applied for 11 days > > now. This is on a 64bit laptop but with a 32bit kernel + HIGHMEM. I > > joined the conversation because my laptop would not resume from suspend > > to disk - it either froze or rebooted. With the patches applied the > > laptop does successfully resume and has been stable. > > > > Since Monday, I have have been running a kernel with the patches (plus, > > from today, the patch you mailed yesterday) applied to 3.7rc7, without > > problems. > > > > I've been running 3.7-rc7 with the patches listed below for a week now > and it has been perfectly stable. In particular, my laptop will now > successfully resume from suspend to disk, which always failed without > the patches. > > From Jiang Liu: > 1. [RFT PATCH v2 1/5] mm: introduce new field "managed_pages" to struct zone > 2. [RFT PATCH v1 2/5] mm: replace zone->present_pages with > zone->managed_pages if appreciated > 3. [RFT PATCH v1 3/5] mm: set zone->present_pages to number of existing > pages in the zone > 4. [RFT PATCH v2 4/5] mm: provide more accurate estimation of pages > occupied by memmap > 5. [RFT PATCH v1 5/5] mm: increase totalram_pages when free pages > allocated by bootmem allocator > > From Andrew Morton: > 6. mm-provide-more-accurate-estimation-of-pages-occupied-by-memmap.patch > > Tested-by: Chris Clayton <chris2553@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks. I have only two of these five patches queued for 3.8: mm-introduce-new-field-managed_pages-to-struct-zone.patch and mm-provide-more-accurate-estimation-of-pages-occupied-by-memmap.patch. I don't recall what happened with the other three. -- 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/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>