Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:51:37 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: bad rss-counter message in 3.14rc5 |
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:00:29PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > This might be collateral damage from the swapops thing, I guess we won't know until > > that gets fixed, but I thought I'd mention that we might still have a problem here. > > Yes, those Bad rss-counters could well be collateral damage from the > swapops BUG. To which I believe I now have the answer: again untested, > but please give this a try...
This survived an overnight run. No swapops bug, and no bad RSS. Good job :)
> (It's worth saying, by the way, that these bugs are not a consequence > of recent changes at all, they've been there for ages; but trinity has > just got better at taunting remap_file_pages and the rest of mm...)
Indeed. I hope to lift the covers on more stuff like this (and hopefully get it done in a more reproducable manner). A lot of the stuff trinity is doing with VM syscalls is still very naive.
Dave
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