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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: bad page state in 3.13-rc4
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 15:24:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131219202416.GA14519@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131219195352.GB9228@kvack.org>

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 02:53:52PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:

 > is populated into the page tables).  The only place I can see things going 
 > off the rails is if the get_user_pages() call fails.  It's possible trinity 
 > could be arranging things so that the get_user_pages() call is failing 
 > somehow.  Also, if it were a double free of a page, we should at least get 
 > a VM_BUG() occuring when the page's count is 0.
 > 
 > Dave -- do you have CONFIG_DEBUG_VM on in your test rig?

Yes. Note the original trace in this thread was a VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) <= 0);

Right after these crashes btw, the box locks up solid. So bad that traces don't
always make it over usb-serial. Annoying.

	Dave


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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: bad page state in 3.13-rc4
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 15:24:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131219202416.GA14519@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131219195352.GB9228@kvack.org>

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 02:53:52PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:

 > is populated into the page tables).  The only place I can see things going 
 > off the rails is if the get_user_pages() call fails.  It's possible trinity 
 > could be arranging things so that the get_user_pages() call is failing 
 > somehow.  Also, if it were a double free of a page, we should at least get 
 > a VM_BUG() occuring when the page's count is 0.
 > 
 > Dave -- do you have CONFIG_DEBUG_VM on in your test rig?

Yes. Note the original trace in this thread was a VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) <= 0);

Right after these crashes btw, the box locks up solid. So bad that traces don't
always make it over usb-serial. Annoying.

	Dave



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-12-19 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-19  4:07 bad page state in 3.13-rc4 Dave Jones
2013-12-19  4:07 ` Dave Jones
2013-12-19  4:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-19  4:40   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-19 15:41   ` Christoph Lameter
2013-12-19 15:41     ` Christoph Lameter
2013-12-19 20:11     ` Mel Gorman
2013-12-19 20:11       ` Mel Gorman
2013-12-19 20:30       ` Dave Jones
2013-12-19 20:30         ` Dave Jones
2013-12-19 15:53   ` Dave Jones
2013-12-19 15:53     ` Dave Jones
2013-12-19 17:07     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-19 17:07       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-19 17:17       ` Dave Jones
2013-12-19 17:17         ` Dave Jones
2013-12-19 18:11       ` Kent Overstreet
2013-12-19 18:11         ` Kent Overstreet
2013-12-19 18:29         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2013-12-19 18:29           ` Benjamin LaHaise
2013-12-19 18:35           ` Dave Jones
2013-12-19 18:35             ` Dave Jones
2013-12-19 19:19           ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-19 19:19             ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-19 19:26             ` Benjamin LaHaise
2013-12-19 19:26               ` Benjamin LaHaise
2013-12-19 19:45               ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-19 19:45                 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-19 19:53                 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2013-12-19 19:53                   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2013-12-19 20:02                   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-19 20:11                     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-19 20:31                       ` Benjamin LaHaise
2013-12-19 20:31                         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2013-12-19 20:31                       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-19 20:31                         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-19 20:42                         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2013-12-19 20:42                           ` Benjamin LaHaise
2013-12-19 20:24                   ` Dave Jones [this message]
2013-12-19 20:24                     ` Dave Jones
2013-12-19 23:38                     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2013-12-19 23:38                       ` Benjamin LaHaise
2013-12-20  1:00                       ` Dave Jones
2013-12-20  1:00                         ` Dave Jones
2013-12-21 23:06                         ` [PATCHes - aio / migrate page, please review] " Benjamin LaHaise
2013-12-21 23:06                           ` Benjamin LaHaise
2013-12-22 19:09                           ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-22 19:09                             ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-22 21:30                             ` Dave Jones
2013-12-22 21:30                               ` Dave Jones

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