From: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qustion] vmalloc area overlap with another allocated vmalloc area
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 22:23:05 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <591C5CC9.7040109@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170517134412.GL18247@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On 2017/5/17 21:44, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 17-05-17 20:53:57, zhong jiang wrote:
>> +to linux-mm maintainer for any suggestions
>>
>> Thanks
>> zhongjiang
>> On 2017/5/16 13:03, zhong jiang wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I hit the following issue by runing /proc/vmallocinfo. The kernel is 4.1 stable and
>>> 32 bit to be used. after I expand the vamlloc area, the issue is not occur again.
>>> it is related to the overflow. but I do not see any problem so far.
> Is this a clean 4.1 stable kernel without any additional patches on top?
> Are you able to reproduce this? How? Does the same problem happen with
> the current Linus tree?
It is hard to reproduce. just for special case and only once. we can not structure the case.
I do not test it in Linus tree so far. because I know it is hard to reprodeuce.
Just by reading the code, I do not find the same issue. so I have no idea.
Thanks
zhongjiang
>>> cat /proc/vmallocinfo
>>> 0xf1580000-0xf1600000 524288 raw_dump_mem_write+0x10c/0x188 phys=8b901000 ioremap
>>> 0xf1638000-0xf163a000 8192 mcss_pou_queue_init+0xa0/0x13c [mcss] phys=fc614000 ioremap
>>> 0xf528e000-0xf5292000 16384 n_tty_open+0x10/0xd0 pages=3 vmalloc
>>> 0xf5000000-0xf9001000 67112960 devm_ioremap+0x38/0x70 phys=40000000 ioremap
>>> 0xfe001000-0xfe002000 4096 iotable_init+0x0/0xc phys=20001000 ioremap
>>> 0xfe200000-0xfe201000 4096 iotable_init+0x0/0xc phys=1a000000 ioremap
>>> 0xff100000-0xff101000 4096 iotable_init+0x0/0xc phys=2000a000 ioremap
>>>
>>> n_tty_open allocate the vmap area is surrounded by the devm_ioremap ioremap by above info.
>>> I do not see also the race in the condition.
>>>
>>> I have no idea to the issue. Anyone has any suggestions will be appreicated.
>>> The related config is attatched.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> zhongjiang
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-16 5:03 [Qustion] vmalloc area overlap with another allocated vmalloc area zhong jiang
2017-05-17 12:53 ` zhong jiang
2017-05-17 13:44 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-17 14:23 ` zhong jiang [this message]
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