On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 06:06:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Or I might just be getting lucky.. > > Do you have SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING enabled? I don't think so ? I have CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS=999999, so it looks like that never gets defined unless I'm missing something obvious. > Do you see multiple "BUG: Bad rss-counter state" messages? no > 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. the 8169 debug stuff I was trying to run used the function tracer. Could that have widened the window ? Dave -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>