Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 5 Apr 2018 15:50:02 +0200 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mm/ksm: fix inconsistent accounting of zero pages |
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 02:27:54PM +0200, Claudio Imbrenda wrote: > When using KSM with use_zero_pages, we replace anonymous pages > containing only zeroes with actual zero pages, which are not anonymous. > We need to do proper accounting of the mm counters, otherwise we will > get wrong values in /proc and a BUG message in dmesg when tearing down > the mm. > > Fixes: e86c59b1b1 ("mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring") > > Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > --- > mm/ksm.c | 7 +++++++ > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the stable kernel tree. Please read: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html for how to do this properly.
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