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Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also on PowerPC and ARM)

From "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also on PowerPC and ARM)
Date 2016-02-17 16:30 +0100
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On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 05:24:44PM +0100, Gerald Schaefer wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 23:35:26 +0200
> "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> wrote:
> 
> > Is there any chance that I'll be able to trigger the bug using QEMU?
> > Does anybody have an QEMU image I can use?
> > 
> 
> I have no image, but trying to reproduce this under virtualization may
> help to trigger this also on other architectures. After ruling out IPI
> vs. fast_gup I do not really see why this should be arch-specific, and
> it wouldn't be the first time that we hit subtle races first on s390, due
> to our virtualized environment (my test case is make -j20 with 10 CPUs and
> 4GB of memory, no swap).

Could you post your kernel config?

It would be nice also to check if disabling split_huge_page() would make
any difference:

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index a75081ca31cf..26d2b7b21021 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -3364,6 +3364,8 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list)
 	bool mlocked;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
+	return -EBUSY;
+
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(is_huge_zero_page(page), page);
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageAnon(page), page);
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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[BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also on  PowerPC and ARM) Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> - 2016-02-11 19:30 +0100
  Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also  on PowerPC and ARM) "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-02-11 20:10 +0100
    Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also  on PowerPC and ARM) "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-11 20:20 +0100
      Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also  on PowerPC and ARM) Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-02-12 13:30 +0100
    Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe  also on PowerPC and ARM) Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> - 2016-02-11 21:00 +0100
      Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also on PowerPC and ARM) "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-02-12 05:10 +0100
        Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe  also on PowerPC and ARM) Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> - 2016-02-12 13:10 +0100
          Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also on PowerPC and ARM) "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-02-12 17:20 +0100
      Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also  on PowerPC and ARM) Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2016-02-12 11:10 +0100
        Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also  on PowerPC and ARM) Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-02-12 11:20 +0100
          Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also  on PowerPC and ARM) Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2016-02-12 17:00 +0100
      Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also  on PowerPC and ARM) "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-02-12 16:50 +0100
        Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also  on PowerPC and ARM) Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> - 2016-02-12 17:00 +0100
          Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe  also on PowerPC and ARM) Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> - 2016-02-12 18:20 +0100
            Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also  on PowerPC and ARM) "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-02-13 00:20 +0100
              Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also  on PowerPC and ARM) Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-02-13 13:00 +0100
                Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also  on PowerPC and ARM) "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-02-15 16:50 +0100
                Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also  on PowerPC and ARM) Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-02-15 17:40 +0100
                Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe  also on PowerPC and ARM) Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> - 2016-02-15 19:40 +0100
                Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also  on PowerPC and ARM) "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-02-16 00:30 +0100
                Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also  on PowerPC and ARM) Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-02-16 11:00 +0100
                Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe  also on PowerPC and ARM) Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> - 2016-02-16 17:30 +0100
                Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also  on PowerPC and ARM) "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-02-17 16:30 +0100
                Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also  on PowerPC and ARM) Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> - 2016-02-16 19:50 +0100
                Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe  also on PowerPC and ARM) Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> - 2016-02-17 20:20 +0100
                Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also  on PowerPC and ARM) "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-02-18 08:00 +0100
                Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe  also on PowerPC and ARM) Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> - 2016-02-18 16:10 +0100
                Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also  on PowerPC and ARM) "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-02-18 18:10 +0100
                Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also  on PowerPC and ARM) Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-02-19 15:20 +0100
              Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe  also on PowerPC and ARM) Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> - 2016-02-15 17:50 +0100

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