Re: 2.6.18: Kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:522

Dave Jones
2006-10-04T20:40:06Z

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 05:49:00PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > > It is also nice if we can work out where the page actually came from. The
> > > following attached patch should help out a bit with that, if you could
> > > run with it?
> > Okay. I'll reboot with your patch and let you know if it crashes again.
> enable CONFIG_DEBUG_VM to get that.

Given this warnings still pops up from time to time, I question whether
putting that check under DEBUG_VM was such a good idea. It's not as
if it's a major performance impact. This has potential for us to lose
valuable debugging info for a few nanoseconds performance increase in
an already costly path.

This patch brings it back unconditionally, and moves the BUG()
into the if arm.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

--- local-git/mm/rmap.c~ 2006-10-04 16:38:06.000000000 -0400
+++ local-git/mm/rmap.c 2006-10-04 16:38:24.000000000 -0400
@@ -576,15 +576,14 @@ void page_add_file_rmap(struct page *pag
void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page)
{
if (atomic_add_negative(-1, &page->_mapcount)) {
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
if (unlikely(page_mapcount(page) < 0)) {
printk (KERN_EMERG "Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (%d)\n", page_mapcount(page));
printk (KERN_EMERG " page->flags = %lx\n", page->flags);
printk (KERN_EMERG " page->count = %x\n", page_count(page));
printk (KERN_EMERG " page->mapping = %p\n", page->mapping);
+ BUG();
}
-#endif
- BUG_ON(page_mapcount(page) < 0);
+
/*
* It would be tidy to reset the PageAnon mapping here,
* but that might overwrite a racing page_add_anon_rmap
--