Re: Memory management bug

[Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 05:35:53PM +0100, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com wrote:
> I did a little closer investigation. The BUG was triggered by a page with
> page->mapping pointing to an address space of a mapped ext2 file
> (page->mapping->a_ops == &ext2_aops). The page had PG_locked, PG_uptodate,
> PG_active and PG_swap_cache set. The stack backstrace showed that kswapd
> called do_try_to_free_pages, refill_inactive, swap_out, swap_out_mm,
> swap_out_vma, try_to_swap_out and add_to_swap_cache where BUG hit.  The
> registers look good, the struct page looks good. I don't think that this was
> a random memory corruption.

Agreed, that's almost sure _not_ random memory corruption of the page
structure. It looks like a VM bug (if you can reproduce trivially I'd give a
try to test8 too since test8 is rock solid for me while test10 lockups in VM
core at the second bonnie if using emulated highmem).

> I was refering to the "if (!order) goto try_again" ifs in alloc_pages, not
> the "if (something) BUG()" ifs.

Ah ok :), see Linus's answer: in your case the "don't do that" means to
implement the:

	#define SOFT_PAGE_SIZE (PAGE_SIZE<<2)

thing we were talking about yesterday of course.

Plus I add that the "if (!order) goto try_again" is an obvious deadlock prone
bug introduce in test9 that should be removed.

Andrea
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