Re: linux-next: boot problem with next-20120607

[Stephen Rothwell]

Hi Andrew,

On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 09:57:55 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 15:05:49 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 13:53:20 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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?
> 
> Yes.  This was exactly next-20120607.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Ah, well, it may fix it for some, but not for me - I have never seen
> those messages before yesterday.

And with that patch reverted, I get no messages ...
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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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