Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751221AbdFCTYa (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jun 2017 15:24:30 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-f47.google.com ([209.85.218.47]:33452 "EHLO mail-oi0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750991AbdFCTY2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jun 2017 15:24:28 -0400 To: LKML , linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Andrew Morton From: Larry Finger Subject: Sleeping BUG in khugepaged for i586 Message-ID: <968ae9a9-5345-18ca-c7ce-d9beaf9f43b6@lwfinger.net> Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 14:24:26 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1037 Lines: 31 I recently turned on locking diagnostics for a Dell Latitude D600 laptop, which requires a 32-bit kernel. In the log I found the following: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/khugepaged.c:655 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 20, name: khugepaged 1 lock held by khugepaged/20: #0: (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [] collapse_huge_page.isra.47+0x439/0x1240 CPU: 0 PID: 20 Comm: khugepaged Tainted: G W 4.12.0-rc1-wl-12125-g952a068 #80 Hardware name: Dell Computer Corporation Latitude D600 /03U652, BIOS A05 05/29/2003 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x76/0xb2 ___might_sleep+0x174/0x230 collapse_huge_page.isra.47+0xacf/0x1240 khugepaged_scan_mm_slot+0x41e/0xc00 ? _raw_spin_lock+0x46/0x50 khugepaged+0x277/0x4f0 ? prepare_to_wait_event+0xe0/0xe0 kthread+0xeb/0x120 ? khugepaged_scan_mm_slot+0xc00/0xc00 ? kthread_create_on_node+0x30/0x30 ret_from_fork+0x21/0x30 I have no idea when this problem was introduced. Of course, I will test any proposed fixes. Thanks, Larry