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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: a whole bunch of crashes since todays -mm merge.
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 21:12:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120608011215.GB7191@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxwVWiVwxj39DoJmMTknh7JKvCxzxyu-cMQZwd53jOmgQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 06:06:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
 > >
 > > Or I might just be getting lucky..
 > 
 > Do you have SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING enabled?

I don't think so ? I have CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS=999999,
so it looks like that never gets defined unless I'm missing something obvious.
 
 > Do you see multiple "BUG: Bad rss-counter state" messages?

no
 
 > The sync_mm_rss() thing could basically overwrite an already-free'd
 > piece of memory, so it could cause pretty random stuff. But I think
 > you need to be unlucky to hit the window.

the 8169 debug stuff I was trying to run used the function tracer. Could that have
widened the window ?

	Dave

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-08  1:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-08  0:24 a whole bunch of crashes since todays -mm merge Dave Jones
2012-06-08  0:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-08  1:00   ` Dave Jones
2012-06-08  1:06     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-08  1:12       ` Dave Jones [this message]
2012-06-08  1:25         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-08  1:05   ` Andrew Morton
2012-06-08  1:09     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-08  2:22       ` Dave Jones
2012-06-08  1:39     ` Stephen Rothwell

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