Re: [ANNOUNCE] v5.14-rc5-rt8

On Sat, 2021-08-14 at 21:08 +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

On 8/12/21 11:44 PM, Clark Williams wrote:

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$ ./scripts/faddr2line /data/o/linux-5.14.y-rt/vmlinux ___slab_alloc+0x340/0x940
___slab_alloc+0x340/0x940:
PageSlabPfmemalloc at include/linux/page-flags.h:814
(inlined by) pfmemalloc_match at mm/slub.c:2772
(inlined by) ___slab_alloc at mm/slub.c:2874

Aha! That's helpful. Hopefully it's just a small issue where we
opportunistically test flags on a page that's protected by the local
lock we didn't take yet, and I didn't realize there's the VM_BUG_ON
which can trigger if our page went away (which we would have realized
after taking the lock).

So hopefully the below diff with uninspired naming should help?

I bet a nickle it does, shall let box slave away testing that theory
while its master pedals around the sunny Bavarian countryside.

	-Mike