FS#30331 - [linux] 3.4.2-2 Bad rss-counter state

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Björn Mandelvåg (koltrast) - Sunday, 17 June 2012, 16:46 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Tuesday, 17 July 2012, 14:53 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Dave Reisner (falconindy)
Tom Gundersen (tomegun)
Architecture i686
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 42
Private No

Details

Description:

When powering off the computer I get a series of messages like the following:

localhost kernel: [62737.704625] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:f5d71800 idx:2 val:1

At one point there was a crash during power-off with disks not unmounted properly, but mostly it just results in annoying stalls.

Additional info:

This behaviour is new since the since 3.4 kernel and did not occur (to me) with 3.3

System information:

Asus EEE PC with Atom N280.

Steps to reproduce:

Shut down the system using the 3.4.2-2 kernel.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Tuesday, 17 July 2012, 14:53 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  3.4.5-1
Comment by Tom Gundersen (tomegun) - Sunday, 17 June 2012, 18:49 GMT
I can reproduce this. I don't know what (if any) ill effects it has.

To the best of my knowledge upstream is aware of this, and have made a few attempts at fixing it.

Last I heard they had not yet sorted it out, but still working on it.
Comment by Björn Mandelvåg (koltrast) - Tuesday, 19 June 2012, 11:38 GMT
Problem persists in the 3.4.3 kernel, but I haven't seen any further crashes or stalls.
Comment by dieyushi (dieyushi) - Thursday, 21 June 2012, 15:26 GMT
It seems Linus has been merged the fix at Wed Jun 20 12:53:01 2012 -0700.
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Friday, 22 June 2012, 09:54 GMT
I actually have these errors on a running system. So it's probably not related to powering off the system.
Comment by mkkot (mkkot) - Saturday, 23 June 2012, 14:11 GMT
I saw it right after killing X (I ecountered some strange problem with cursor and keyboard which made me unable to control KDE).
Comment by Alejandro Díaz-Caro (JanusDC) - Sunday, 24 June 2012, 14:39 GMT
Same problem here on powering off. Kernel 3.4.4-1
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Sunday, 24 June 2012, 14:45 GMT
Please refrain from posting if all you're going to say is "me too". There's a vote button for this, and it avoids spamming the mailbox of the 11 people watching this bug.
Comment by Alex (Alex Arch User) - Saturday, 30 June 2012, 17:10 GMT
linux-bfs 3.4.4-423 here.
Have these errors from time to time when halt/reboot. No real crashes though.
Comment by Xi0N (Xi0N) - Monday, 02 July 2012, 23:14 GMT
Happens on x86_64 as well... On the description it says i686... Just thought I should point this out
Comment by Vorbote (vorbote) - Sunday, 08 July 2012, 15:43 GMT
The is already a fix. https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/9/47

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