From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FBFE8D0039 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 15:07:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 21:07:28 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [mmotm] BUG: Bad page state in process khugepaged ? Message-ID: <20110209200728.GQ3347@random.random> References: <20110209151036.f24a36a6.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20110209155001.0e369475.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> <20110209155246.69a7f3a1.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110209155246.69a7f3a1.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Daisuke Nishimura , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "hannes@cmpxchg.org" On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 03:52:46PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 15:50:01 +0900 > Daisuke Nishimura wrote: > > > > > > > In hex, pc->flags was 7A00000000004 and this means PCG_USED bit is set. > > > This implies page_remove_rmap() may not be called but ->mapping is NULL. Hmm? > > > (7A is encoding of section number.) > > > > > Sigh.. it seems another freed-but-not-uncharged problem.. > > > > Ah, ok, this is maybe caused by this. I'm sorry that I missed this. > == > static inline int free_pages_check(struct page *page) > { > if (unlikely(page_mapcount(page) | > (page->mapping != NULL) | > (atomic_read(&page->_count) != 0) | > (page->flags & PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE) | > (mem_cgroup_bad_page_check(page)))) { <==========(*) > bad_page(page); > return 1; > == > > Then, ok, this is a memcgroup and hugepage issue. > > I'll look into. Yes, the rest of the info on the page looked ok and shouldn't have triggered a bad_page call. Thanks so much for looking into it. Andrea -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org