From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: boot problem with next-20120607
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 15:05:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120607150549.63f3ab81.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120607135320.7a1298385346bc238a0f92b0@canb.auug.org.au>
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 13:53:20 +1000
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> My boot of next-20120607 in PowerPC produces lots of these warnings:
>
> BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:c000000278508000 idx:0 val:-27
> BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:c000000278284000 idx:0 val:-27
> BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:c000000279e13000 idx:0 val:-27
> BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:c000000278285400 idx:0 val:-27
>
> And so on (with different mm, idx and val numbers). Searching showed me
> commit "mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec" which seems
> to be there to fix this exact problem?
Well that's a worry. Are you really sure
mm-correctly-synchronize-rss-counters-at-exit-exec.patch was applied at
the time?
There's been an extended amount of inconclusive waffling on that patch,
but I thought it concerned the best way to fix it, rather than
*whether* it fixes it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-07 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-07 3:53 linux-next: boot problem with next-20120607 Stephen Rothwell
2012-06-07 22:05 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-06-07 22:20 ` Stephen Warren
2012-06-07 23:57 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-06-08 0:50 ` Stephen Rothwell
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