Re: a whole bunch of crashes since todays -mm merge.

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On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Or I might just be getting lucky..

Do you have SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING enabled?

Do you see multiple "BUG: Bad rss-counter state" messages?

The sync_mm_rss() thing could basically overwrite an already-free'd
piece of memory, so it could cause pretty random stuff. But I think
you need to be unlucky to hit the window.

                Linus

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