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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: David F Barrera <dbarrera@us.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:92! & page allocation failure. order:0,  mode:0x0
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 13:47:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D3DC0E0.EDE4CF20@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020723203445.GK1117@dualathlon.random

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 12:24:04PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > David F Barrera wrote:
> > >
> > > I have experienced the following errors while running a test suite (LTP
> > > test suite)  on the 2.4.26 kernel.  Has anybody seen this problem, and, if
> > > so, is there a patch for it?  Thanks.
> > >
> > > kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:92!
> >
> > Could you please replace the put_page(page) in
> > kernel/ptrace.c:access_process_vm() with page_cache_release(page)
> > and retest?
> 
> I prefer to drop page_cache_release and to have __free_pages_ok to deal
> with the lru pages like it's been fixed in 2.4.

That would fix it too.  But a __free_pages_ok call from interrupt
context can deadlock the box.

The removal of pages from the LRU is rather a mess.  It's getting
better, and we can fix up some more of this if/when pagemap_lru_lock
becomes an interrupt-safe lock.

-

  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-23 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-23 16:56 kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:92! & page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x0 David F Barrera
2002-07-23 19:24 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-23 20:34   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-23 20:47     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-07-23 20:56       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-23 21:16         ` Andrew Morton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-23 17:07 David F Barrera
2002-07-23 17:17 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-23 18:17   ` Paul Larson
2002-07-24 13:42 David F Barrera
2002-07-24 19:35 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-24 19:55   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-24 20:11     ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-25 14:02 David F Barrera

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