From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: mm, vmstat: kernel BUG at mm/vmstat.c:1408!
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 10:49:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <569FAC90.5030407@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1601200919520.21490@east.gentwo.org>
On 01/20/2016 10:20 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
>> > On Wed 20-01-16 09:56:26, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>> > > On 01/20/2016 09:37 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>>> > > > I am just reading through this old discussion again because "vmstat:
>>>> > > > make vmstat_updater deferrable again and shut down on idle" which seems
>>>> > > > to be the culprit AFAIU has been merged as 0eb77e988032 and I do not see
>>>> > > > any follow up fix merged to linus tree
>>> > >
>>> > > So this isn't an "old" discussion - the bug is very much there and I can
>>> > > hit it easily. As a workaround I've "disabled" vmstat.
>> >
>> > Well the report is since 18th Dec which is over month old. Should we
>> > revert 0eb77e988032 as a pre caution and make sure this is done properly
>> > in -mm tree. AFAIR none of the proposed fix worked without other
>> > fallouts?
> Seems that we are unable to get enough information to reproduce the issue?
As I've mentioned - this reproduces frequently. I'd be happy to add in debug
information into the kernel that might help you reproduce it, but as it seems
like a timing issue, I can't provide a simple reproducer.
Thanks,
Sasha
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From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: mm, vmstat: kernel BUG at mm/vmstat.c:1408!
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 10:49:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <569FAC90.5030407@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1601200919520.21490@east.gentwo.org>
On 01/20/2016 10:20 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
>> > On Wed 20-01-16 09:56:26, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>> > > On 01/20/2016 09:37 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>>> > > > I am just reading through this old discussion again because "vmstat:
>>>> > > > make vmstat_updater deferrable again and shut down on idle" which seems
>>>> > > > to be the culprit AFAIU has been merged as 0eb77e988032 and I do not see
>>>> > > > any follow up fix merged to linus tree
>>> > >
>>> > > So this isn't an "old" discussion - the bug is very much there and I can
>>> > > hit it easily. As a workaround I've "disabled" vmstat.
>> >
>> > Well the report is since 18th Dec which is over month old. Should we
>> > revert 0eb77e988032 as a pre caution and make sure this is done properly
>> > in -mm tree. AFAIR none of the proposed fix worked without other
>> > fallouts?
> Seems that we are unable to get enough information to reproduce the issue?
As I've mentioned - this reproduces frequently. I'd be happy to add in debug
information into the kernel that might help you reproduce it, but as it seems
like a timing issue, I can't provide a simple reproducer.
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-20 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 114+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-19 0:33 mm, vmstat: kernel BUG at mm/vmstat.c:1408! Sasha Levin
2015-12-19 0:33 ` Sasha Levin
2015-12-21 13:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-12-21 13:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-12-21 20:28 ` Sasha Levin
2015-12-21 20:28 ` Sasha Levin
2015-12-21 21:07 ` Sasha Levin
2015-12-21 21:07 ` Sasha Levin
2015-12-21 21:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-12-21 21:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-12-22 17:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-12-22 17:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-12-24 20:14 ` Sasha Levin
2015-12-29 17:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-12-29 17:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-12-29 17:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-12-29 17:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-04 18:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-04 18:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-04 18:46 ` Sasha Levin
2016-01-04 18:46 ` Sasha Levin
2016-01-12 11:31 ` Shiraz Hashim
2016-01-12 11:31 ` Shiraz Hashim
2016-01-12 12:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-12 12:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-12 12:27 ` Shiraz Hashim
2016-01-12 12:27 ` Shiraz Hashim
2016-01-13 11:36 ` Shiraz Hashim
2016-01-13 11:36 ` Shiraz Hashim
2016-01-13 12:32 ` Shiraz Hashim
2016-01-13 12:32 ` Shiraz Hashim
2016-01-14 21:06 ` Sasha Levin
2016-01-14 21:06 ` Sasha Levin
2016-01-20 14:37 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-20 14:37 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-20 14:56 ` Sasha Levin
2016-01-20 14:56 ` Sasha Levin
2016-01-20 15:10 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-20 15:10 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-20 15:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-20 15:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-20 15:49 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2016-01-20 15:49 ` Sasha Levin
2016-01-20 15:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-20 15:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-20 21:28 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-20 21:28 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-20 21:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-20 21:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-21 8:24 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-21 8:24 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-21 15:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-21 15:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-21 16:51 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-21 16:51 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-21 17:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-21 17:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-22 11:00 ` Shiraz Hashim
2016-01-22 11:00 ` Shiraz Hashim
2016-01-22 14:04 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-22 14:04 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-22 16:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-22 16:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-22 16:12 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-22 16:12 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-22 16:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-22 16:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-22 17:12 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-22 17:12 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-23 16:21 ` fast path cycle muncher (vmstat: make vmstat_updater deferrable again and shut down on idle) Mike Galbraith
2016-01-24 0:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-24 2:46 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-24 3:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-24 5:36 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-25 17:42 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-25 18:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-25 20:13 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-26 16:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-26 18:31 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-26 18:34 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-26 18:45 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-26 19:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-27 3:12 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-27 4:15 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-27 16:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-28 15:36 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2016-01-28 16:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-26 2:14 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-26 2:25 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-26 16:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-26 17:39 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-26 18:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-26 16:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-26 17:08 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-26 18:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-26 19:09 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-26 19:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-27 16:48 ` [PATCH] mm, vmstat: make quiet_vmstat lighter (was: Re: fast path cycle muncher (vmstat: make vmstat_updater deferrable) " Michal Hocko
2016-01-27 17:03 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-27 18:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-28 15:21 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-28 16:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-28 16:53 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-28 17:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-28 15:31 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-28 15:37 ` [PATCH] vmstat: make vmstat_update deferrable (was: Re: [PATCH] mm, vmstat: make quiet_vmstat lighter) " Michal Hocko
2016-01-28 16:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-28 16:42 ` [PATCH] mm, vmstat: make quiet_vmstat lighter (was: Re: fast " Christoph Lameter
2016-01-24 16:57 ` mm, vmstat: kernel BUG at mm/vmstat.c:1408! Linus Torvalds
2016-01-24 16:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-01-20 15:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-20 15:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-20 15:20 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-20 15:20 ` Michal Hocko
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