The patch titled revert "mm: oom analysis: add buffer cache information to show_free_areas()" has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is revert-mm-oom-analysis-add-buffer-cache-information-to-show_free_areas.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: revert "mm: oom analysis: add buffer cache information to show_free_areas()" From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert commit 71de1ccbe1fb40203edd3beb473f8580d917d2ca Author: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Mon Sep 21 17:01:31 2009 -0700 Commit: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Tue Sep 22 07:17:27 2009 -0700 mm: oom analysis: add buffer cache information to show_free_areas() show_free_areas() is called during page allocation failures, and page allocation failures can occur in any calling context. But nr_blockdev_pages() takes VFS locks which should not be taken from hard IRQ context (at least). The result is lockdep warnings (and deadlockability) during page allocation failures. Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~revert-mm-oom-analysis-add-buffer-cache-information-to-show_free_areas mm/page_alloc.c --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~revert-mm-oom-analysis-add-buffer-cache-information-to-show_free_areas +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2183,7 +2183,7 @@ void show_free_areas(void) printk("active_anon:%lu inactive_anon:%lu isolated_anon:%lu\n" " active_file:%lu inactive_file:%lu isolated_file:%lu\n" " unevictable:%lu" - " dirty:%lu writeback:%lu unstable:%lu buffer:%lu\n" + " dirty:%lu writeback:%lu unstable:%lu\n" " free:%lu slab_reclaimable:%lu slab_unreclaimable:%lu\n" " mapped:%lu shmem:%lu pagetables:%lu bounce:%lu\n", global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_ANON), @@ -2196,7 +2196,6 @@ void show_free_areas(void) global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY), global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK), global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS), - nr_blockdev_pages(), global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES), global_page_state(NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE), global_page_state(NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE), _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch linux-next-git-rejects.patch next-remove-localversion.patch i-need-old-gcc.patch include-linux-compiler-gcc4h-gcc-402-doesnt-understand-__builtin_object_size.patch arch-x86-kernel-cpu-cpufreq-acpi-cpufreqc-avoid-cross-cpu-interrupts-by-using-smp_call_function_any.patch cmpc_acpi-add-support-for-classmate-pc-acpi-devices-fix.patch timer-stats-fix-del_timer_sync-and-try_to_del_timer_sync.patch 3x59x-fix-pci-resource-management.patch bluetooth-fix-for-acer-bluetooth-optical-rechargeable-mouse.patch include-trace-events-lockdeph-fix-do_div-warning.patch st-fix-test-of-value-range-in-st_set_options.patch scsi-add-hpsa-driver-for-hp-smart-array-controllers-fix.patch raw-fix-rawctl-compat-ioctls-breakage-on-amd64-and-itanic.patch fs-improve-remountro-vs-buffercache-coherency.patch percpu-avoid-calling-__pcpu_ptr_to_addrnull.patch hfsplus-refuse-to-mount-volumes-larger-than-2tb-fix.patch revert-mm-oom-analysis-add-buffer-cache-information-to-show_free_areas.patch drivers-gpu-drm-i915-i915_dmac-fix-unused-var.patch vfs-implement-posix-o_sync-and-o_dsync-semantics-checkpatch-fixes.patch munmap-dont-check-sysctl_max_mapcount-fix.patch readahead-add-blk_run_backing_dev.patch dev-mem-cleanup-unxlate_dev_mem_ptr-calls-fix.patch dev-mem-cleanup-unxlate_dev_mem_ptr-calls-fix-fix.patch frv-duplicate-output_buffer-of-e03-checkpatch-fixes.patch floppy-add-an-extra-bound-check-on-ioctl-arguments-fix.patch errh-add-helper-function-to-simplify-pointer-error-checking-fix.patch gpiolib-add-names-file-in-gpio-chip-sysfs.patch memcg-coalesce-charging-via-percpu-storage-fix.patch net-netfilter-ipvs-ip_vs_wrrc-use-lib-gcdc-fix.patch reiser4-export-remove_from_page_cache-fix.patch reiser4.patch reiser4-remove-simple_prepare_write-usage-checkpatch-fixes.patch fs-reiser4-contextc-current_is_pdflush-got-removed.patch reiser4-fix.patch reiser4-disable.patch slab-leaks3-default-y.patch put_bh-debug.patch getblk-handle-2tb-devices.patch getblk-handle-2tb-devices-fix.patch undeprecate-pci_find_device.patch notify_change-callers-must-hold-i_mutex.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html