Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Jun 2012 03:05:20 +0200 | From | Markus Trippelsdorf <> | Subject | Re: [patch 12/12] mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec |
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On 2012.06.07 at 17:25 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ugh, looking more at the patch, I'm getting more and more convinces > that it is pure and utter garbage. > > It does "sync_mm_rss(mm);" in mmput(), _after_ it has done the > possibly final mmdrop(). WTF? > > This is crap, guys. Seriously. Stop playing russian rulette with this > code. I think we need to revert *all* of the crazy rss games, unless > Konstantin can show us some truly obviously correct fix. > > Sadly, I merged and pushed out the crap before I had rebooted and > noticed this problem, so now it's in the wild. Can somebody please > take a look at this asap?
You've somehow merged the wrong patch. The correct version can be found here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=133848759505805
-- Markus
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