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Date:	Mon, 9 Apr 2012 20:40:48 +0200
From:	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: v3.4 BUG: Bad rss-counter state

On 2012.04.09 at 11:22 -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> > Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > > On 2012.04.08 at 13:39 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > > > I've hit the following warning after I've tried to link Firofox's libxul
> > > > with "-flto -lto-partition=none" on my machine with 8GB memory. I've
> 
> I've no notion of what's unusual in that link.

"-lto-partition=none" disables partitioning and streaming of the link
time optimizer.

> > > > killed the process after it used all the memory and 90% of my swap
> 
> Does doing that link push you well into swap on 3.3?

Yes lto1 uses ~12GB of RAM when called with "-lto-partition=none".

> There's a separate mail thread which implicates
> CONFIG_ANDROID_LOW_MEMORY_KILLER (how appropriately named!) in memory
> leaks on 3.4, so please switch that off if you happened to have it on -
> unless you're keen to reproduce these rss-counter messages for us.

No that option is off.

-- 
Markus
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