Re: [PATCH 2/2] move slab pages to the lru, for 2.5.27

[Ed Tomlinson]

On July 22, 2002 02:54 pm, Steven Cole wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 05:24, Craig Kulesa wrote:
> > This is an update for the 2.5 port of Ed Tomlinson's patch to move slab
> > pages onto the lru for page aging, atop 2.5.27 and the full rmap patch.
> > It is aimed at being a fairer, self-tuning way to target and evict slab
> > pages.
> >
> > Previous description:
> > 	http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-mm/2002-07/msg00216.html
> > Patch URL:
> > 	http://loke.as.arizona.edu/~ckulesa/kernel/rmap-vm/2.5.27/
>
> While trying to boot 2.5.27-rmap-slablru, I got this early in the boot:
>
> Kernel panic: Failed to create pte-chain mempool!
> In idle task - not syncing

This is not the result of slablru (rmap yes), rather it looks to be what Andrew Morton 
was worried about in the "Re: pte_chain_mempool-2.5.27-1" thread.  Looks like 
the chunk of continous memory need for the pte_change_mempool cannot be 
obtained...

Ed Tomlinson