Re: bad rss-counter message in 3.14rc5

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 09:46:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
 > On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:13:40 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > 
 > > > Anyone ? I'm hitting this trace on an almost daily basis, which is a pain
 > > > while trying to reproduce a different bug..
 > > 
 > > Damn, I thought we'd fixed that but it seems not.  Cc's added.
 > > 
 > > Guys, what stops the migration target page from coming unlocked in
 > > parallel with zap_pte_range()'s call to migration_entry_to_page()?
 > 
 > page_table_lock, sort-of.  At least, transitions of is_migration_entry()
 > and page_locked() happen under ptl.
 > 
 > I don't see any holes in regular migration.  Do you know if this is
 > reproducible with CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING=n or CONFIG_NUMA=n?

CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING was n already btw, so I'll do a NUMA=n run.

	Dave

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