From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: mmotm 2011-04-29 - wonky VmRSS and VmHWM values after swapping
Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 16:44:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110502164430.eb7d451d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8185.1304347042@localhost>
On Mon, 02 May 2011 10:37:22 -0400
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Sun, 01 May 2011 20:26:54 EDT, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu said:
> > On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:26:16 PDT, akpm@linux-foundation.org said:
> > > The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2011-04-29-16-25 has been uploaded to
> > >
> > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
> >
> > Dell Latitude E6500 laptop, Core2 Due P8700, 4G RAM, 2G swap.Z86_64 kernel.
> >
> > I was running a backup of the system to an external USB hard drive.
>
> Is a red herring. Am seeing it again, after only 20 minutes of uptime, and so
> far I've only gotten 1.2G or so into the 4G ram (2.5G still free), and never
> touched swap yet.
>
> Aha! I have a reproducer (found while composing this note). /bin/su will
> reliably trigger it (4 tries out of 4, launching from a bash shell that itself
> has sane VmRSS and VmHWM values). So it's a specific code sequence doing it
> (probably one syscall doing something quirky).
>
> Now if I could figure out how to make strace look at the VmRSS after each
> syscall, or get gdb to do similar. Any suggestions? Am open to perf/other
> solutions as well, if anybody has one handy...
>
hm, me too. After boot, hald has a get_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES) of
0xffffffffffff3c27. Bisected to Pater's
mm-extended-batches-for-generic-mmu_gather.patch, can't see how it did
that.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-02 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-29 23:26 mmotm 2011-04-29-16-25 uploaded akpm
2011-04-30 16:46 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-05-01 7:47 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-05-02 15:46 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-05-01 2:35 ` [PATCH] mmotm: fix hang at startup Hugh Dickins
2011-05-01 3:25 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-02 0:26 ` mmotm 2011-04-29 - wonky VmRSS and VmHWM values after swapping Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-02 14:37 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-02 23:44 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-05-02 23:57 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-10 16:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-11 22:53 ` Andrew Morton
2011-05-12 1:08 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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