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Re: BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff8800c5a96000 idx:3 val:3894

From Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff8800c5a96000 idx:3 val:3894
Date 2015-12-29 19:40 +0100
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On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:23:47 +0100 Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:

> [CCing Andrew]
> 
> On Thu 24-12-15 09:12:53, Jeremiah Mahler wrote:
> > all,
> > 
> > I have started seeing a "Bad rss-counter" message in the logs with
> > the latest linux-next 20151222+.
> > 
> >   [  458.282192] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff8800c5a96000 idx:3 val:3894
> 
> This is MM_SHMEMPAGES so an "unamapped" shmem memory. One possible
> reason might be an unitialized zap_details used from unmap_mapping_range
> during truncate introduced by "mm, oom: introduce oom reaper" from the
> mmotm tree. There is a fix for this which is still pending
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450487091-7822-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin%40oracle.com

That won't be getting fixed until linux-next returns from holidays.

This:

--- a/mm/memory.c~mm-oom-introduce-oom-reaper-fix-5-fix
+++ a/mm/memory.c
@@ -2415,7 +2415,7 @@ static inline void unmap_mapping_range_t
 void unmap_mapping_range(struct address_space *mapping,
 		loff_t const holebegin, loff_t const holelen, int even_cows)
 {
-	struct zap_details details;
+	struct zap_details details = { };
 	pgoff_t hba = holebegin >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 	pgoff_t hlen = (holelen + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 
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BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff8800c5a96000 idx:3 val:3894 Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com> - 2015-12-24 18:20 +0100
  Re: BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff8800c5a96000 idx:3 val:3894 Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2015-12-29 17:30 +0100
    Re: BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff8800c5a96000 idx:3 val:3894 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-12-29 19:40 +0100
      Re: BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff8800c5a96000 idx:3 val:3894 Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com> - 2015-12-29 20:00 +0100
      Re: BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff8800c5a96000 idx:3 val:3894 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> - 2015-12-30 23:40 +0100

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