On Wednesday, 1 June 2022 14:09:28 CEST Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 01:27:32AM +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > > What's the current status wrt this bug? > > we downgraded the memory of our nodes to 8gb to work around the issue... Andrew Morton said in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196157#c21 : "People are still hurting from this. It does seem a pretty major regression for highmem machines. I'm surprised that we aren't hearing about this from distros. Maybe it only affects a subset of highmem machines? Anyway, can we please take another look at it? Seems that we messed up highmem dirty pagecache handling in the 4.2 timeframe." I didn't see a mention of this bug in that upstream bug report. A mention of "the i386 build nodes for tests.reproducible-builds.org" may also help to increase the priority for the upstream devs. And if it's possible to equip one of the machines with 16G again and provide access to the upstream devs to that machine, that will likely increase the chances that something may happen. So it would be really helpful if this would be added to the upstream bug report. Otherwise it's extremely unlikely anything will change.
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