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* linux-next: boot problem with next-20120607
@ 2012-06-07  3:53 Stephen Rothwell
  2012-06-07 22:05 ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Rothwell @ 2012-06-07  3:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: linux-next, linux-kernel, Konstantin Khlebnikov

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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?

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au

P.S. that patch also has conflict markers in the commit message ...

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* Re: linux-next: boot problem with next-20120607
  2012-06-07  3:53 linux-next: boot problem with next-20120607 Stephen Rothwell
@ 2012-06-07 22:05 ` Andrew Morton
  2012-06-07 22:20   ` Stephen Warren
  2012-06-07 23:57   ` Stephen Rothwell
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Morton @ 2012-06-07 22:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stephen Rothwell
  Cc: linux-next, linux-kernel, Konstantin Khlebnikov, Oleg Nesterov

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.

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* Re: linux-next: boot problem with next-20120607
  2012-06-07 22:05 ` Andrew Morton
@ 2012-06-07 22:20   ` Stephen Warren
  2012-06-07 23:57   ` Stephen Rothwell
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Warren @ 2012-06-07 22:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: Stephen Rothwell, linux-next, linux-kernel, Konstantin Khlebnikov,
	Oleg Nesterov

On 06/07/2012 04:05 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.

I see those same errors on my ARM system. I found that reverting that
patch (105d42c mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec) made
them go away, although I didn't investigate whether that just removed
some debug print or actually solved a problem.

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* Re: linux-next: boot problem with next-20120607
  2012-06-07 22:05 ` Andrew Morton
  2012-06-07 22:20   ` Stephen Warren
@ 2012-06-07 23:57   ` Stephen Rothwell
  2012-06-08  0:50     ` Stephen Rothwell
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Rothwell @ 2012-06-07 23:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: linux-next, linux-kernel, Konstantin Khlebnikov, Oleg Nesterov

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Hi Andrew,

On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 15:05:49 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 13:53:20 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> > 
> > 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?

Yes.  This was exactly next-20120607.

> 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.

Ah, well, it may fix it for some, but not for me - I have never seen
those messages before yesterday.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au

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* Re: linux-next: boot problem with next-20120607
  2012-06-07 23:57   ` Stephen Rothwell
@ 2012-06-08  0:50     ` Stephen Rothwell
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Rothwell @ 2012-06-08  0:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: linux-next, linux-kernel, Konstantin Khlebnikov, Oleg Nesterov

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Hi Andrew,

On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 09:57:55 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 15:05:49 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 13:53:20 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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?
> 
> Yes.  This was exactly next-20120607.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Ah, well, it may fix it for some, but not for me - I have never seen
> those messages before yesterday.

And with that patch reverted, I get no messages ...
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au

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