From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754010AbaDRQYR (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2014 12:24:17 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:53792 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751459AbaDRQYN (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2014 12:24:13 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 18:23:59 +0200 From: Oleg Nesterov To: Peter Chiang Cc: "ccross@android.com" , "lizefan@huawei.com" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "tj@kernel.org" , "pavel@ucw.cz" , "ebiederm@xmission.com" , "guillaume@morinfr.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm : Avoid candidate task is equal to current task Message-ID: <20140418162359.GA4398@redhat.com> References: <1397617379-26895-1-git-send-email-pchiang@nvidia.com> <80341664FB79C2419999599F48F738410227327881@HKMAIL01.nvidia.com> <80341664FB79C2419999599F48F738410227327888@HKMAIL01.nvidia.com> <20140416135741.GA9407@redhat.com> <80341664FB79C2419999599F48F7384102273279C3@HKMAIL01.nvidia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <80341664FB79C2419999599F48F7384102273279C3@HKMAIL01.nvidia.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/17, Peter Chiang wrote: > > It is a speculation where the panic was. > > [38261.652100] Call trace: > [38261.654616] [] mm_update_next_owner+0x190/0x238 > [38261.660766] [] do_exit+0x204/0x924 > [38261.665790] [] do_group_exit+0x40/0xcc > [38261.671169] [] get_signal_to_deliver+0x218/0x57c > [38261.677409] [] do_signal+0x534/0x550 > [38261.682608] [] do_notify_resume+0x20/0x58 Could you show the full dmesg? Could you look into asm/objdump/addr2line to figure out what this mm_update_next_owner+0x190 means? Is it reproducable? Hmm. I seem to see a bug in this function, it can be fulled by use_mm, but I am not sure this can explain the problem. I'll send a patch. Oleg.