Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754064AbaJBPEx (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2014 11:04:53 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:43227 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752465AbaJBPEw (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2014 11:04:52 -0400 Message-ID: <542D6981.3080405@oracle.com> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:04:33 -0400 From: Sasha Levin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Hugh Dickins , Dave Jones , Al Viro , Linux Kernel , Rik van Riel , Ingo Molnar , Michel Lespinasse , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Mel Gorman Subject: Re: pipe/page fault oddness. References: <20140930033327.GA14558@redhat.com> <20140930043309.GA16196@redhat.com> <20140930160510.GA15903@redhat.com> <20140930162201.GC15903@redhat.com> <20140930164047.GA18354@redhat.com> <20140930182059.GA24431@redhat.com> <542C7B5E.2020000@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/01/2014 06:42 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: >> > >> > I've tried this patch on the same configuration that was triggering >> > the VM_BUG_ON that Hugh mentioned previously. Surprisingly enough it >> > ran fine for ~20 minutes before exploding with: > Well, that's somewhat encouraging. I didn't expect it to be perfect. > > That said, "ran fine" isn't necessarily the same thing as "worked". > Who knows how buggy it was without showing overt symptoms until the > BUG_ON() triggered. But hey, I'll be optimistic. > >> > [ 2781.566206] kernel BUG at mm/huge_memory.c:1293! > So that's > > BUG_ON(is_huge_zero_page(page)); > > and the reason is trivial: the old code used to have a magical special > case for the zero-page hugepage (see change_huge_pmd()) and I got rid > of that (because now it's just about setting protections, and the > zero-page hugepage is in no way special. > > So I think the solution is equally trivial: just accept that the > zero-page can happen, and ignore it (just un-numa it). > > Appended is a incremental diff on top of the previous one. Even less > tested than the last case, but I think you get the idea if it doesn't > work as-is. I have a new one for you. I know it doesn't say "numa" anywhere, but I haven't ever seen that trace before so I'll just go ahead and blame it on your patch... [ 2838.403382] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000055d996e80 [ 2838.405740] IP: task_curr (kernel/sched/core.c:1010) [ 2838.407076] PGD dba2c6067 PUD 0 [ 2838.407926] Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted [ 2838.409093] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC [ 2838.411454] Dumping ftrace buffer: [ 2838.412602] (ftrace buffer empty) [ 2838.413187] Modules linked in: [ 2838.413187] CPU: 38 PID: 9342 Comm: trinity-c38 Not tainted 3.17.0-rc7-sasha-00041-g6c9c81b #1260 [ 2838.413187] task: ffff880dba2f0000 ti: ffff880dba2ec000 task.ti: ffff880dba2ec000 [ 2838.413187] RIP: task_curr (kernel/sched/core.c:1010) [ 2838.413187] RSP: 0018:ffff880dba2ebf48 EFLAGS: 00010046 [ 2838.413187] RAX: 000000000000f080 RBX: ffff880dba2f0000 RCX: 000000000000000a [ 2838.413187] RDX: 00000000ba1a9560 RSI: ffff880dba2f0000 RDI: ffff880dba2f0000 [ 2838.413187] RBP: ffff880dba2ebf98 R08: 000000000004862a R09: 0000000000000000 [ 2838.413187] R10: 0000000000000038 R11: 000000000000001f R12: ffff880dba2f0000 [ 2838.413187] R13: ffff880dd5420740 R14: 000000000000000b R15: ffffffff8cc92000 [ 2838.413187] FS: 00007f05f3dbc700(0000) GS:ffff880701e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 2838.413187] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [ 2838.413187] CR2: 000000055d996e80 CR3: 0000000dba2c5000 CR4: 00000000000006a0 [ 2838.413187] DR0: 00000000006ee000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 2838.413187] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000090602 [ 2838.413187] Stack: [ 2838.413187] ffffffff8816218b 0000000000000000 ffff880d0000000a 000000000000000b [ 2838.413187] 0000000000000082 ffff880dba2f0000 000000000000000b ffff880dba2ec070 [ 2838.413187] 0000000000000000 ffffffff8cc92000 ffff880dba2ebff8 ffffffff88162a84 [ 2838.413187] Call Trace: [ 2838.413187] [ 2838.413187] Code: 87 60 09 00 00 01 e8 8d ee ff ff 5d c3 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 57 08 55 48 c7 c0 80 f0 00 00 48 89 e5 5d 8b 52 18 <48> 8b 14 d5 80 c3 c4 8c 48 39 bc 10 68 09 00 00 0f 94 c0 0f b6 All code ======== 0: 87 60 09 xchg %esp,0x9(%rax) 3: 00 00 add %al,(%rax) 5: 01 e8 add %ebp,%eax 7: 8d (bad) 8: ee out %al,(%dx) 9: ff (bad) a: ff 5d c3 lcallq *-0x3d(%rbp) d: 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 data32 nopw %cs:0x0(%rax,%rax,1) 14: 00 00 00 00 18: 48 8b 57 08 mov 0x8(%rdi),%rdx 1c: 55 push %rbp 1d: 48 c7 c0 80 f0 00 00 mov $0xf080,%rax 24: 48 89 e5 mov %rsp,%rbp 27: 5d pop %rbp 28: 8b 52 18 mov 0x18(%rdx),%edx 2b:* 48 8b 14 d5 80 c3 c4 mov -0x733b3c80(,%rdx,8),%rdx <-- trapping instruction 32: 8c 33: 48 39 bc 10 68 09 00 cmp %rdi,0x968(%rax,%rdx,1) 3a: 00 3b: 0f 94 c0 sete %al 3e: 0f b6 00 movzbl (%rax),%eax Code starting with the faulting instruction =========================================== 0: 48 8b 14 d5 80 c3 c4 mov -0x733b3c80(,%rdx,8),%rdx 7: 8c 8: 48 39 bc 10 68 09 00 cmp %rdi,0x968(%rax,%rdx,1) f: 00 10: 0f 94 c0 sete %al 13: 0f b6 00 movzbl (%rax),%eax [ 2838.413187] RIP task_curr (kernel/sched/core.c:1010) [ 2838.413187] RSP [ 2838.413187] CR2: 000000055d996e80 Thanks, Sasha -- 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/