Thread (28 messages) 28 messages, 7 authors, 2016-06-09

Re: [linux-next: Tree for Jun 1] __khugepaged_exit rwsem_down_write_failed lockup

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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Date: 2016-06-03 09:56:38
Also in: linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: memory management, memory management - thp (transparent huge page), the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Morton, David Hildenbrand, Linus Torvalds

On Fri 03-06-16 17:43:47, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
On (06/03/16 09:25), Michal Hocko wrote:
quoted
quoted
it's quite hard to trigger the bug (somehow), so I can't
follow up with more information as of now.
either I did something very silly fixing up the patch, or the
patch may be causing general protection faults on my system.

RIP collect_mm_slot() + 0x42/0x84
	khugepaged
So is this really collect_mm_slot called directly from khugepaged or is
some inlining going on there?
	prepare_to_wait_event
	maybe_pmd_mkwrite
	kthread
	_raw_sin_unlock_irq
	ret_from_fork
	kthread_create_on_node

collect_mm_slot() + 0x42/0x84 is
I guess that the problem is that I have missed that __khugepaged_exit
doesn't clear the cached khugepaged_scan.mm_slot. Does the following on
top fixes that?
---
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 6574c62ca4a3..e6f4e6fd587a 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2021,6 +2021,8 @@ void __khugepaged_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
 	spin_lock(&khugepaged_mm_lock);
 	mm_slot = get_mm_slot(mm);
 	if (mm_slot) {
+		if (khugepaged_scan.mm_slot == mm_slot)
+			khugepaged_scan.mm_slot = NULL;
 		collect_mm_slot(mm_slot);
 		clear_bit(MMF_VM_HUGEPAGE, &mm->flags);
 	}
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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