On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 13:53:20 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
