Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 15:18:38 -0500 (CDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
        KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
        Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 3.4-rc7 numa_policy slab poison.
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On Mon, 21 May 2012, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:39:19PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>  > But there's not a lot of recent stuff. The thing that jumps out is Mel
>  > Gorman's recent commit cc9a6c8776615 ("cpuset: mm: reduce large
>  > amounts of memory barrier related damage v3"), which has a whole new
>  > loop with that scary mpol_cond_put() usage. And there's we had
>  > problems with vma merging..
>  >
>  > Dave, how recent is this problem? Have you already tried older kernels?
>
> I tried bisecting, but couldn't find a 'good' kernel.
> I Went back as far as 3.0, before that I kept running into compile failures.
> Newer gcc/binutils really seems to dislike 2.6.x now.

Well binary distro kernels are available that allow easy testing. Will try
with what I got here. I have reproduced it with 3.4 so far.

Its always an mput on a freed memory policy. Slub recovery keeps my system
up at least. I just get the errors dumped to dmesg.

Is there any way to get the trinity tool to stop when the kernel writes
errors to dmesg? That way I could see the parameters passed to mbind?


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