Re: More bug fix in mm/hugetlb.c - fix try_to_free_low()

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 12:33:00PM -0700, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> The argument "count" passed to try_to_free_low() is the config parameter
> for desired hugetlb page pool size.  But the implementation took that
> input argument as number of pages to free. It also decrement the config
> parameter as well.  All give random behavior depend on how many hugetlb
> pages are in normal/highmem zone.
> A two line fix in try_to_free_low() would be:

Thanks for cleaning this up; there hasn't been much apparent interest
here lately so I've not gotten much in the way of bugreports to work.

I suspect a general hardening effort should go on here. I'll go about
cleaning up other arches, too.


-- wli
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