From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: solmac john <johnsolmac@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [bug] shrink_slab shrinkersize handling
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 14:53:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120516145303.8a9cb329.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD5x=MPcwXyy0eOdqPxc_8K_i3enoU3ZbtwLS71SHR58FCT6rg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 16 May 2012 14:33:18 +0530
solmac john <johnsolmac@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> During mm performance testing sometimes I observed below kernel messages
>
> [ 80.776000] shrink_slab: ashmem_shrink+0x0/0x114 negative objects to
> delete nr=-2133936901
> [ 80.784000] shrink_slab: ashmem_shrink+0x0/0x114 negative objects to
> delete nr=-2139256767
> [ 80.796000] shrink_slab: ashmem_shrink+0x0/0x114 negative objects to
> delete nr=-2079333971
> [ 80.804000] shrink_slab: ashmem_shrink+0x0/0x114 negative objects to
> delete nr=-2096156269
> [ 80.812000] shrink_slab: ashmem_shrink+0x0/0x114 negative objects to
> delete nr=-20658392
>
> ...
>
> I found one patch http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/22/80 for this fix
> Please let me know reason why I am getting above error and above is really
> fix for this problem. ?
Yes, that patch should fix it.
Aside: I spent some time trying to work out the reason why local
variable `max_pass' in shrink_slab() is called `max_pass' and failed.
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