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From: Pawel Sikora <pluto@agmk.net>
To: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com, arekm@pld-linux.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel 3.0: BUG: soft lockup: find_get_pages+0x51/0x110
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:35:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2082417.IAMpsykX5y@pawels> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPQyPG5c1ADteP_rA2JRqLz88s7ZP_vWAKV-dp2hCSM9bRCpmg@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday 21 of October 2011 14:54:29 Nai Xia wrote:
> 2011/10/20 Paweł Sikora <pluto@agmk.net>:
> > On Wednesday 19 of October 2011 21:42:15 Hugh Dickins wrote:
> >> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >> > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > My vote is with the migration change. While there are occasionally
> >> > > patches to make migration go faster, I don't consider it a hot path.
> >> > > mremap may be used intensively by JVMs so I'd loathe to hurt it.
> >> >
> >> > Ok, everybody seems to like that more, and it removes code rather than
> >> > adds it, so I certainly prefer it too. Pawel, can you test that other
> >> > patch (to mm/migrate.c) that Hugh posted? Instead of the mremap vma
> >> > locking patch that you already verified for your setup?
> >> >
> >> > Hugh - that one didn't have a changelog/sign-off, so if you could
> >> > write that up, and Pawel's testing is successful, I can apply it...
> >> > Looks like we have acks from both Andrea and Mel.
> >>
> >> Yes, I'm glad to have that input from Andrea and Mel, thank you.
> >>
> >> Here we go.  I can't add a Tested-by since Pawel was reporting on the
> >> alternative patch, but perhaps you'll be able to add that in later.
> >>
> >> I may have read too much into Pawel's mail, but it sounded like he
> >> would have expected an eponymous find_get_pages() lockup by now,
> >> and was pleased that this patch appeared to have cured that.
> >>
> >> I've spent quite a while trying to explain find_get_pages() lockup by
> >> a missed migration entry, but I just don't see it: I don't expect this
> >> (or the alternative) patch to do anything to fix that problem.  I won't
> >> mind if it magically goes away, but I expect we'll need more info from
> >> the debug patch I sent Justin a couple of days ago.
> >
> > the latest patch (mm/migrate.c) applied on 3.0.4 also survives points
> > 1) and 2) described previously (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/18/427),
> > so please apply it to the upstream/stable git tree.
> >
> > from the other side, both patches don't help for 3.0.4+vserver host soft-lock
> 
> Hi Paweł,
> 
> Did your "both" mean that you applied each patch and run the tests separately,

yes, i've tested Hugh's patches separately.

> Maybe there were more than one bugs dancing but having a same effect,
> not fixing all of them wouldn't help at all.

i suppose that vserver patch only exposes some tricky bug introduced in 2.6.38.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-21  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <201110122012.33767.pluto@agmk.net>
     [not found] ` <alpine.LSU.2.00.1110131547550.1346@sister.anvils>
2011-10-13 23:30   ` kernel 3.0: BUG: soft lockup: find_get_pages+0x51/0x110 Hugh Dickins
2011-10-16 16:11     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-16 23:54     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-17 18:51       ` Hugh Dickins
2011-10-17 22:05         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-19  7:43         ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-19 13:39           ` Linus Torvalds
2011-10-19 19:42             ` Hugh Dickins
2011-10-20  6:30               ` Paweł Sikora
2011-10-20  6:51                 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-10-21  6:54                 ` Nai Xia
2011-10-21  7:35                   ` Pawel Sikora [this message]
2011-10-20 12:51               ` Nai Xia
2011-10-20 18:36                 ` Hugh Dickins
2011-10-21  6:22                   ` Nai Xia
2011-10-21  8:07                     ` Pawel Sikora
2011-10-21  9:07                       ` Nai Xia
2011-10-21 21:36                         ` Paweł Sikora
2011-10-22  6:21                           ` Nai Xia
2011-10-22 16:42                             ` Paweł Sikora
2011-10-20  9:11       ` Nai Xia
2011-10-21 15:56         ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-21 17:21           ` Nai Xia
2011-10-21 17:41           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-21 22:50             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-22  5:52               ` Nai Xia
2011-10-31 17:14                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-31 17:27                   ` [PATCH] mremap: enforce rmap src/dst vma ordering in case of vma_merge succeeding in copy_vma Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-01 12:07                     ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-01 14:35                     ` Nai Xia
2011-11-04  7:31                     ` Hugh Dickins
2011-11-04 14:34                       ` Nai Xia
2011-11-04 15:59                         ` Pawel Sikora
2011-11-05  2:21                           ` Nai Xia
2011-11-04 19:16                         ` Hugh Dickins
2011-11-04 20:54                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-05  0:09                             ` Nai Xia
2011-11-05  2:21                               ` Hugh Dickins
2011-11-05  3:07                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-05 17:06                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-12-08  3:24                                   ` David Rientjes
2011-12-08 12:42                                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-12-09  0:08                                   ` Andrew Morton
2011-12-09  1:55                                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-04 23:56                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-05  0:21                         ` Nai Xia
2011-11-05  0:59                           ` Nai Xia
2011-11-05  1:33                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-05  2:00                             ` Nai Xia
2011-11-07 13:14                               ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-07 15:42                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-07 16:28                                   ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-09  1:25                                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-11  9:14                                       ` Nai Xia
2011-11-16 14:00                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-17  0:16                                         ` Hugh Dickins
2011-11-17  2:49                                           ` Nai Xia
2011-11-17  6:21                                           ` Nai Xia
2011-11-17 18:42                                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-18  1:42                                             ` Nai Xia
2011-11-18  2:17                                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-19  9:15                                                 ` Nai Xia
2011-10-22  5:07             ` kernel 3.0: BUG: soft lockup: find_get_pages+0x51/0x110 Nai Xia
2011-10-31 16:34               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-16 22:37   ` Linus Torvalds
2011-10-17  3:02     ` Hugh Dickins
2011-10-17  3:09       ` Linus Torvalds

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