linux-kernel - Re: [patch 12/12] mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec

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Date:	Thu, 7 Jun 2012 17:25:34 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Cc:	khlebnikov@...nvz.org, hughd@...gle.com,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, markus@...ppelsdorf.de,
	oleg@...hat.com, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 12/12] mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec

Ugh, looking more at the patch, I'm getting more and more convinces
that it is pure and utter garbage.

It does "sync_mm_rss(mm);" in mmput(), _after_ it has done the
possibly final mmdrop(). WTF?

This is crap, guys. Seriously. Stop playing russian rulette with this
code. I think we need to revert *all* of the crazy rss games, unless
Konstantin can show us some truly obviously correct fix.

Sadly, I merged and pushed out the crap before I had rebooted and
noticed this problem, so now it's in the wild. Can somebody please
take a look at this asap?

             Linus

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> This patch actually seems to have made the
>
>  BUG: Bad rss-counter state ..
>
> problem *much* worse. It triggers all the time for me now - I've got
> 408 of those messages on my macbook air within a minute of booting it.
>
> Not good. Especially not good when it's marked for stable too.
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