The patch titled Subject: exit,stats: /* obey this comment */ has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is exitstats-obey-this-comment.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/exitstats-obey-this-comment.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/exitstats-obey-this-comment.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: exit,stats: /* obey this comment */ There is a helpful comment in do_exit() that states we sync the mm's RSS info before statistics gathering. The function that does the statistics gathering is called right above that comment. Change the code to obey the comment. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/exit.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/exit.c~exitstats-obey-this-comment kernel/exit.c --- a/kernel/exit.c~exitstats-obey-this-comment +++ a/kernel/exit.c @@ -711,10 +711,10 @@ void do_exit(long code) current->comm, task_pid_nr(current), preempt_count()); - acct_update_integrals(tsk); /* sync mm's RSS info before statistics gathering */ if (tsk->mm) sync_mm_rss(tsk->mm); + acct_update_integrals(tsk); group_dead = atomic_dec_and_test(&tsk->signal->live); if (group_dead) { hrtimer_cancel(&tsk->signal->real_timer); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from riel@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch page-flags-trivial-cleanup-for-pagetrans-helpers.patch page-flags-introduce-page-flags-policies-wrt-compound-pages.patch page-flags-define-pg_locked-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch page-flags-define-behavior-of-fs-io-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch page-flags-define-behavior-of-lru-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch page-flags-define-behavior-slb-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch page-flags-define-behavior-of-xen-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch page-flags-define-pg_reserved-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch page-flags-define-pg_swapbacked-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch page-flags-define-pg_swapcache-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch page-flags-define-pg_mlocked-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch page-flags-define-pg_uncached-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch page-flags-define-pg_uptodate-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch page-flags-look-on-head-page-if-the-flag-is-encoded-in-page-mapping.patch mm-sanitize-page-mapping-for-tail-pages.patch mm-vmscan-do-not-throttle-based-on-pfmemalloc-reserves-if-node-has-no-reclaimable-pages.patch mm-move-lazy-free-pages-to-inactive-list.patch mm-move-lazy-free-pages-to-inactive-list-fix.patch mm-move-lazy-free-pages-to-inactive-list-fix-fix.patch exitstats-obey-this-comment.patch do_shared_fault-check-that-mmap_sem-is-held.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html