[Linux-ia64] Kernel Bug

["Maribasavaiah, Prasad" <prasad.maribasavaiah@intel.com>]

We are getting kernel BUG message when running a stress test on Redhat Linux
Beta 1,  the message says bug at line 82 in page_alloc.c. The line 82 calls
function BUG().
When I looked at the function it is in __free_pages_ok().

The line 81 & 82 in the below function corresponds to 
if (page->buffers)
	BUG();

I would like to know is this a know issue or it is already fixed in the next
kernel?

static void __free_pages_ok (struct page *page, unsigned long order)
{
	unsigned long index, page_idx, mask, flags;
	free_area_t *area;
	struct page *base;
	zone_t *zone;

	/*
	 * Subtle. We do not want to test this in the inlined part of
	 * __free_page() - it's a rare condition and just increases
	 * cache footprint unnecesserily. So we do an 'incorrect'
	 * decrement on page->count for reserved pages, but this part
	 * makes it safe.
	 */
	if (PageReserved(page))
		return;

	if (page->buffers)
		BUG();
	if (page->mapping)
		BUG();
	if (!VALID_PAGE(page))
		BUG();
	if (PageSwapCache(page))
		BUG();
	if (PageLocked(page))
		BUG();
	if (PageDecrAfter(page))
		BUG();
	if (PageDirty(page))
		BUG();
	if (PageActive(page))
		BUG();
	if (PageInactiveDirty(page))
		BUG();
	if (PageInactiveClean(page))
		BUG();

	page->flags &= ~(1<<PG_referenced);
	page->age = PAGE_AGE_START;
	
	zone = page->zone;

	mask = (~0UL) << order;
	base = mem_map + zone->offset;
	page_idx = page - base;
	if (page_idx & ~mask)
		BUG();
	index = page_idx >> (1 + order);

	area = zone->free_area + order;

	spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);

	zone->free_pages -= mask;

	while (mask + (1 << (MAX_ORDER-1))) {
		struct page *buddy1, *buddy2;

		if (area >= zone->free_area + MAX_ORDER)
			BUG();
		if (!test_and_change_bit(index, area->map))
			/*
			 * the buddy page is still allocated.
			 */
			break;
		/*
		 * Move the buddy up one level.
		 */
		buddy1 = base + (page_idx ^ -mask);
		buddy2 = base + page_idx;
		if (BAD_RANGE(zone,buddy1))
			BUG();
		if (BAD_RANGE(zone,buddy2))
			BUG();

		memlist_del(&buddy1->list);
		mask <<= 1;
		area++;
		index >>= 1;
		page_idx &= mask;
	}
	memlist_add_head(&(base + page_idx)->list, &area->free_list);

	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);

	/*
	 * We don't want to protect this variable from race conditions
	 * since it's nothing important, but we do want to make sure
	 * it never gets negative.
	 */
	if (memory_pressure > NR_CPUS)
		memory_pressure--;
}

void __free_pages(struct page *page, unsigned long order)
{
	if (put_page_testzero(page))
		__free_pages_ok(page, order);
}

void free_pages(unsigned long addr, unsigned long order)
{
	struct page *fpage;

#ifdef CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
	if (addr = 0) return;
#endif
	fpage = virt_to_page(addr);
	if (VALID_PAGE(fpage))
		__free_pages(fpage, order);
}


Prasad Maribasavaiah
DP CV Debug
Intel Corporation
Phone : (253) 371 4803