linux-kernel - Re: bad rss-counter message in 3.14rc5

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Message-ID: <532AF8E8.8030101@oracle.com>
Date:	Thu, 20 Mar 2014 10:19:20 -0400
From:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	Bob Liu <bob.liu@...cle.com>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>
Subject: Re: bad rss-counter message in 3.14rc5

On 03/20/2014 09:51 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:00:29PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
>   > > This might be collateral damage from the swapops thing, I guess we won't know until
>   > > that gets fixed, but I thought I'd mention that we might still have a problem here.
>   >
>   > Yes, those Bad rss-counters could well be collateral damage from the
>   > swapops BUG.  To which I believe I now have the answer: again untested,
>   > but please give this a try...
>
> This survived an overnight run. No swapops bug, and no bad RSS. Good job:)

Same here, swapops bug is gone!


Thanks,
Sasha
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