Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mm/ksm: fix inconsistent accounting of zero pages

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Apr 05 2018 - 09:50:11 EST


On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 02:27:54PM +0200, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
> When using KSM with use_zero_pages, we replace anonymous pages
> containing only zeroes with actual zero pages, which are not anonymous.
> We need to do proper accounting of the mm counters, otherwise we will
> get wrong values in /proc and a BUG message in dmesg when tearing down
> the mm.
>
> Fixes: e86c59b1b1 ("mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring")
>
> Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/ksm.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree. Please read:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.

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