BUG: Bad rss-counter state

June 20th, 2012 - 04:00 pm ET by Nick Bowler | Report spam
Hi folks,

I just noticed the following couple lines in my kernel log for Linux
3.4.2:

Jun 20 14:57:54 emergent kernel: BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff88000ff1f400 idx:1 val:-2
Jun 20 14:57:54 emergent kernel: BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff88000ff1f400 idx:2 val:2

I have no idea what these messages mean, nor what I was doing exactly
at 14:57:54 today, nor whether they've been fixed in newer kernels.
Regardless, they appear to be telling me that there's a kernel problem
since they contain the word "BUG", so I figured I had better report them
nonetheless. Other than the fact that these messages were printed, the
system is operating normally.

This happened about a week after bootup, so it's probably not easy to
reproduce.

Let me know if you need any more info,
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)

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#1 Michal Hocko
June 21st, 2012 - 06:00 am ET | Report spam
On Wed 20-06-12 15:49:08, Nick Bowler wrote:
Hi folks,

I just noticed the following couple lines in my kernel log for Linux
3.4.2:

Jun 20 14:57:54 emergent kernel: BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff88000ff1f400 idx:1 val:-2
Jun 20 14:57:54 emergent kernel: BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff88000ff1f400 idx:2 val:2

I have no idea what these messages mean, nor what I was doing exactly
at 14:57:54 today, nor whether they've been fixed in newer kernels.
Regardless, they appear to be telling me that there's a kernel problem
since they contain the word "BUG", so I figured I had better report them
nonetheless. Other than the fact that these messages were printed, the
system is operating normally.



The issue is known and the fix can be found at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/9/47

This happened about a week after bootup, so it's probably not easy to
reproduce.

Let me know if you need any more info,
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)

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