Re: a whole bunch of crashes since todays -mm merge.

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.

Yeah, I think you're right. And in that case I don't think the
sync_mm_rss() patch should matter. Although it does move mm_release()
around, which makes me nervous - that could cause independent issues.
I never got that far in analyzing the patch, because I got hung up on
the obvious problems and decided to revert it as obviously broken and
untested.

Btw, I really wish we didn't do that complicated USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS ->
SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING stuff hidden in the header files. I suspect we
should do it in the mm/Kconfig file instead, and make them normal
config options. I think that makes it easier to grep for.

              Linus
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