Re: Linux 3.19-rc3

[Mark Langsdorf]

On 01/08/2015 07:45 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 12:51:31PM +0000, Mark Langsdorf wrote:
> > On 01/05/2015 07:46 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > It's a day delayed - not because of any particular development issues,
> > > but simply because I was tiling a bathroom yesterday. But rc3 is out
> > > there now, and things have stayed reasonably calm. I really hope that
> > > implies that 3.19 is looking good, but it's equally likely that it's
> > > just that people are still recovering from the holiday season.
> >
> > I'm consistently getting an out of memory killer triggered when
> > compiling the kernel (make -j 16 -s) on a 16 core ARM64 system
> > with 16 GB of memory. This doesn't happen when running a 3.18
> > kernel.
> >
> > I'm going to start bisecting the failure now, but here's the crash
> > log in case someone can see something obvious in it.

> Can you disable (transparent) huge pages? I don't have any better at the
> moment suggestion apart from bisecting.

I didn't have transparent huge pages on. Turning off hugetblfs didn't
change anything. Turning off 64K pages isn't an option because of
firmware constraints.

--Mark Langsdorf

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