From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [munlock] BUG: Bad page map in process killall5 pte:53425553 pmd:075f4067
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:34:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52385A59.2080304@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130917132910.GA16186@localhost>
On 09/17/2013 03:29 PM, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> Hi Vlastimil,
>
>>
>> Also, some of the failures during bisect were not due to this bug, but a WARNING for
>> list_add corruption which hopefully is not related to munlock. While it is probably a far stretch,
>> some kind of memory corruption could also lead to the erroneous behavior of the munlock code.
>>
>> Can you therefore please retest with the bisected patch reverted (patch below) to see if the other
>> WARNING still occurs and can be dealt with separately, so there are not potentially two bugs to
>> be chased at the same time?
>
> Yes there seems to be one more bug, the attached dmesg is for the
> kernel with your patch reverted. I'm trying to bisect the other bug
> now.
Thanks. Meanwhile I was able to reproduce the bug in my patch in a VM
with x86_32 without PAE. As it turns out, pmd_addr_end() on such
configuration without pmd really does not bound the address to page
table boundary, but is a no-op. Working on a fix.
Vlastimil
> Thanks,
> Fengguang
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-17 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-16 8:47 [munlock] BUG: Bad page map in process killall5 pte:53425553 pmd:075f4067 Fengguang Wu
2013-09-16 15:27 ` Vlastimil Babka
2013-09-17 13:29 ` Fengguang Wu
2013-09-17 13:34 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2013-09-17 14:22 ` [RFC PATCH RESEND] mm: munlock: Prevent walking off the end of a pagetable in no-pmd configuration Vlastimil Babka
2013-09-18 1:17 ` Bob Liu
2013-09-20 9:04 ` Vlastimil Babka
2013-09-20 9:16 ` [PATCH] " Vlastimil Babka
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