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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Pavel Tatashin <Pavel.Tatashin@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: A crash on ARM64 in move_freepages_block due to uninitialized pages in reserved memory
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 13:10:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180823111024.GC29735@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1808220808050.17906@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com>

On Thu 23-08-18 07:02:37, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
[...]
> This crash is not from -ENOENT. It crashes because page->compound_head is 
> 0xffffffffffffffff (see below).
> 
> If I enable CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, I also get VM_BUG.

This smells like the struct page is not initialized properly. How is
this memory range added? I mean is it brought up by the memory hotplug
or during the boot?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-23 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-17 19:44 A crash on ARM64 in move_freepages_block due to uninitialized pages in reserved memory Mikulas Patocka
2018-08-21 10:44 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-21 12:58   ` James Morse
2018-08-23 11:02     ` Mikulas Patocka
2018-08-23 11:10       ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-08-23 11:16         ` Mikulas Patocka
2018-08-23 11:23           ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-23 13:13             ` Pasha Tatashin
2018-08-23 13:14               ` Pasha Tatashin
2018-08-23 14:34               ` Mikulas Patocka
2018-08-23 14:06       ` James Morse
2018-08-24 11:41         ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-29 17:37           ` James Morse
2018-08-30 15:58             ` Mikulas Patocka
2018-08-30 16:11               ` Will Deacon
2018-08-30 16:25               ` James Morse
2018-09-03 19:33             ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-07 17:47               ` James Morse

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