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Re: Bad page state splats on arm64, v4.11-rc{3,4}

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On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 04:48:15PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 12:37:51PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 11:56:29AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 06:58:45PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:

> > > > I'm seeing intermittent bad page state splats on arm64 with 4.11-rc3 and
> > > > v4.11-rc4.

> > > I wasn't able to trigger the issue over the weekend on a kernel with
> > > HUGETLBFS disabled. There are known issues with our handling of
> > > contiguous entries, and this might be an artefact of that.
> > 
> > After chatting with Punit, it looks like this might be because the GUP
> > code doesn't handle huge ptes (which we create using the contiguous hint),
> > so follow_page_pte ends up with one of those and goes wrong. In particular,
> > the migration code will certainly do the wrong thing.
> > 
> > I'll probably revert the contiguous support (again) if testing indicates
> > that it makes this issue disappear.
> 
> It might be worth checking with Punit's patches as well:
> 
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=149089199018167&w=2

I'd given those patches a spin prior to testing v4.11-rc4 with HUGETLBFS
disabled.

I saw the issue even with those patches applied.

Thanks,
Mark.

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Bad page state splats on arm64, v4.11-rc{3,4} Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-03-31 20:00 +0200
  Re: Bad page state splats on arm64, v4.11-rc{3,4} Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-04-03 13:00 +0200
    Re: Bad page state splats on arm64, v4.11-rc{3,4} Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2017-04-03 13:40 +0200
      Re: Bad page state splats on arm64, v4.11-rc{3,4} Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2017-04-03 17:50 +0200
        Re: Bad page state splats on arm64, v4.11-rc{3,4} Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-04-03 18:00 +0200
      Re: Bad page state splats on arm64, v4.11-rc{3,4} Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-04-03 19:50 +0200

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