Thread (20 messages) 20 messages, 4 authors, 2021-12-02

Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: page table check

From: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Date: 2021-11-30 19:26:05
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 9:57 PM Fusion Future [off-list ref] wrote:
On 2021/11/29 00:57, Pasha Tatashin wrote:
quoted
This commit by itself would not cause the freeze or BUG_ON(), but the
next commit which enables it on x86 arch might.
Yes, you are right. At the commit
"[1e67abff1820489435aad3fcf258708c21c283ef] x86: mm: add x86_64 support
for page table check" my system starts to experience the freeze.

I can now reproduce the freeze by following the steps below:

1. Open 20 YouTube video pages, and a YouTube Music page.
2. Play music in the background. (The step can be omitted)
3. Run `git clone
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git ln`
Thanks, I found a reliable way to reproduce this problem on my workstation:
reduce the amount of physical memory to 4G via memmap kernel
parameter,  and use a script that starts chrome browser with 20 tabs
each pointing to a youtube.com page.

I will send an update after root cause.
git will never successfully clone the repo because the system will
freeze during the operation.

I also tried adding `page_table_check=off` to the boot option but still
I will add support for page_table_check=off even when
CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK_ENFORCED is set

Thanks,
Pasha
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