Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751772Ab3FWLvg (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Jun 2013 07:51:36 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f44.google.com ([209.85.215.44]:55953 "EHLO mail-la0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751351Ab3FWLve (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Jun 2013 07:51:34 -0400 Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:51:29 +0400 From: Glauber Costa To: Michal Hocko Cc: Andrew Morton , Dave Chinner , linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML Subject: Re: linux-next: slab shrinkers: BUG at mm/list_lru.c:92 Message-ID: <20130623115127.GA7986@localhost.localdomain> References: <20130617141822.GF5018@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20130617151403.GA25172@localhost.localdomain> <20130617143508.7417f1ac9ecd15d8b2877f76@linux-foundation.org> <20130617223004.GB2538@localhost.localdomain> <20130618062623.GA20528@localhost.localdomain> <20130619071346.GA9545@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20130619142801.GA21483@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20130620141136.GA3351@localhost.localdomain> <20130620151201.GD27196@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20130621090021.GB12424@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130621090021.GB12424@dhcp22.suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1884 Lines: 35 On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:00:21AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 20-06-13 17:12:01, Michal Hocko wrote: > > I am bisecting it again. It is quite tedious, though, because good case > > is hard to be sure about. > > OK, so now I converged to 2d4fc052 (inode: convert inode lru list to generic lru > list code.) in my tree and I have double checked it matches what is in > the linux-next. This doesn't help much to pin point the issue I am > afraid :/ > Can you revert this patch (easiest way ATM is to rewind your tree to a point right before it) and apply the following patch? As Dave has mentioned, it is very likely that this bug was already there, we were just not ever checking imbalances. The attached patch would tell us at least if the imbalance was there before. If this is the case, I would suggest turning the BUG condition into a WARN_ON_ONCE since we would be officially not introducing any regression. It is no less of a bug, though, and we should keep looking for it. The main change from before / after the patch is that we are now keeping things per node. One possibility of having this BUGing would be to have an inode to be inserted into one node-lru and removed from another. I cannot see how it could happen, because kernel pages are stable in memory and are not moved from node to node. We could still have some sort of weird bug in the node calculation function. In any case, would it be possible for you to artificially restrict your setup to a single node ? Although I have no idea how to do that, we seem to have no parameter to disable numa. Maybe booting with less memory, enough to fit a single node? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/