Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2000 08:22:47 +0100 (CET) | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: Signal 11 - the continuing saga |
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On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Hint: "ptep_mkdirty()".
<g> rather obvious oopsie.. once spotted.
> In case you wonder why the bug was so insidious, what this caused was two > separate problems, both of them able to cause SIGSGV's. > > One: we didn't mark the page table entry dirty like we were supposed to. > > Two: by making it writable, we also made the page shared, even if it > wasn't supposed to be shared (so when the next process wrote to the page, > if the swap page was shared with somebody else, the changes would show up > even in the process that _didn't_ write to it). > > And "ptep_mkdirty()" is only used by swapoff, so nothing else would show > this. Which was why it hadn't been immediately obvious that anything was > broken.
The terminal OOM problem is now gone and I haven't seen a SIGSEGV yet running virgin source.
IOU 5 bogo$$
-Mike
(I still see something with IKD that _could_ be timing related troubles. There are a couple of grubby fingerprints I need to wipe off, and some churn/burn hours to be sure)
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