Re: bad rss-counter message in 3.14rc5

From: Dave Jones
Date: Tue Mar 18 2014 - 22:11:57 EST


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:06:02PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 09:32:36PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>
> > > Untested patch below: I can't quite say Reported-by, because it may
> > > not even be one that you and Sasha have been seeing; but I'm hopeful,
> > > remap_file_pages is in the list.
> > >
> > > Please give this a try, preferably on 3.14-rc or earlier: I've never
> > > seen "Bad rss-counter"s there myself (trinity uses remap_file_pages
> > > a lot more than most of us); but have seen them on mmotm/next, so
> > > some other trigger is coming up there, I'll worry about that once
> > > it reaches 3.15-rc.
> >
> > The patch fixed the "Bad rss-counter" errors I've been seeing both in
> > 3.14-rc7 and -next.
>
> It's looking good here too so far. I'll leave it running overnight to be sure.

Of course, that isn't going to happen. Immediately after posting this, I hit the
swapops bug. Patch does seem to have cured the bad rss counters though.

Dave

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