Re: [RFC, DEBUGGING 1/2] mm: pass NR_FILE_PAGES/NR_SHMEM into node_page_state

From	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
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Subject	Re: [RFC, DEBUGGING 1/2] mm: pass NR_FILE_PAGES/NR_SHMEM into node_page_state
Date	2016-06-23 18:40 +0200
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On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 05:56:57PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday, June 23, 2016 2:51:11 PM CEST Mel Gorman wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 03:17:43PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > I have an alternative fix for this in a private tree. For now, I've asked
> > > > Andrew to withdraw the series entirely as there are non-trivial collisions
> > > > with OOM detection rework and huge page support for tmpfs.  It'll be easier
> > > > and safer to resolve this outside of mmotm as it'll require a full round
> > > > of testing which takes 3-4 days.
> > > 
> > > Ok. I've done a new version of my debug patch now, will follow up here
> > > so you can do some testing on top of that as well if you like. We probably
> > > don't want to apply my patch for the type checking, but you might find it
> > > useful for your own testing.
> > > 
> > 
> > It is useful. After fixing up a bunch of problems manually, it
> > identified two more errors. I probably won't merge it but I'll hang on
> > to it during development.
> 
> I'm glad it helps. On my randconfig build machine, I've also now run
> into yet another finding that I originally didn't catch, not sure if you
> found this one already:
> 

It's corrected in my current working tree. Thanks for continuing to
check.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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[RFC, DEBUGGING 1/2] mm: pass NR_FILE_PAGES/NR_SHMEM into node_page_state Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-06-23 12:10 +0200
  Re: [RFC, DEBUGGING 1/2] mm: pass NR_FILE_PAGES/NR_SHMEM into  node_page_state Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-06-23 12:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC, DEBUGGING 1/2] mm: pass NR_FILE_PAGES/NR_SHMEM into node_page_state Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-06-23 15:20 +0200
      Re: [RFC, DEBUGGING 1/2] mm: pass NR_FILE_PAGES/NR_SHMEM into  node_page_state Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-06-23 16:00 +0200
        Re: [RFC, DEBUGGING 1/2] mm: pass NR_FILE_PAGES/NR_SHMEM into node_page_state Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-06-23 18:00 +0200
          Re: [RFC, DEBUGGING 1/2] mm: pass NR_FILE_PAGES/NR_SHMEM into  node_page_state Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-06-23 18:40 +0200

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