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Message-Id: <20120607150549.63f3ab81.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 15:05:49 -0700 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> Cc: 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 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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