Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 26 Sep 2001 01:11:16 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: weird memory related problems, negative memory usage or fake memory usage? |
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 07:54:07PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 07:03:20PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Olivier Sessink wrote: > > > > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > > > > 1262 root 5 -10 50764 -1M 1320 S < 2.7 99.9 0:01 XFree86 > > > > > > It seems Andrea wasn't careful with the merge and > > > backed out some of the locking wrt mm->rss. > > > > thanks for forwarding this report, actually I just noticed this > > here and that's good so I can reproduce :) > > > > it is possible it is my mistake, but I don't think so, infact I > > don't recall to have changed rss stuff or locking around it. > > Mmm, then it could also be one of the bugs which got > fixed in -ac but where Linus never reacted to the
possibly yes but maybe not, dunno right now or I would be just sending the fix inline in this email :). As said I never seen it before Ben's tlb shootdown was merged into mainline, but again I repeat it can _really_ be just an unlucky coincidence. But I guess because of this coincidence the tlb shootdown will be the first things I will audit tomorrow.
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