linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: boot problem with next-20120607

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Date:	Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:20:22 -0600
From:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: boot problem with next-20120607

On 06/07/2012 04:05 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 13:53:20 +1000
> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.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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