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SubjectRe: [patch 12/12] mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec
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

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Markus


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