Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Date | Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:57:18 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.20-mm1 [kernel BUG at mm/swap.c:442] |
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, James Morris wrote:
> Then, I get this reliably as ntpd starts up: > [ 92.905514] [<c014e7ff>] lru_add_drain+0x57/0x8d > [ 92.905519] [<c015a03f>] free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x12/0x85 > [ 92.905526] [<c0155acb>] unmap_region+0xfd/0x129 > [ 92.905530] [<c0156404>] do_munmap+0x153/0x1b4 > [ 92.905534] [<c015648a>] sys_munmap+0x25/0x34 > [ 92.905538] [<c01028fc>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb > [ 92.905542] ======================= > [ 92.905544] Code: 74 1a 85 d2 74 0b 8d 82 80 05 00 00 e8 6a 3a 1a 00 8d 86 80 05 00 00 e8 7c 36 1a 00 8b 03 a9 00 00 10 00 74 > 3f 8b 03 a8 20 74 04 <0f> 0b eb fe f0 0f ba 2b 05 f0 0f ba 33 14 f0 0f ba 2b 06 ba 03
Andrew already has this fix which cures it for me. PG_mlocked pages can be freed in some situations and thus we need the correct handling in the page allocator:
Index: linux-2.6.20/include/linux/page-flags.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.20.orig/include/linux/page-flags.h 2007-02-15 20:42:42.000000000 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.20/include/linux/page-flags.h 2007-02-15 20:43:33.000000000 -0800 @@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ static inline void SetPageUptodate(struc #define PageMlocked(page) test_bit(PG_mlocked, &(page)->flags) #define SetPageMlocked(page) set_bit(PG_mlocked, &(page)->flags) #define ClearPageMlocked(page) clear_bit(PG_mlocked, &(page)->flags) +#define __ClearPageMlocked(page) __clear_bit(PG_mlocked, &(page)->flags) struct page; /* forward declaration */ Index: linux-2.6.20/mm/page_alloc.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.20.orig/mm/page_alloc.c 2007-02-15 20:42:42.000000000 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.20/mm/page_alloc.c 2007-02-15 20:55:23.000000000 -0800 @@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ static void bad_page(struct page *page) 1 << PG_slab | 1 << PG_swapcache | 1 << PG_writeback | + 1 << PG_mlocked | 1 << PG_buddy ); set_page_count(page, 0); reset_page_mapcount(page); @@ -442,6 +443,11 @@ static inline int free_pages_check(struc bad_page(page); if (PageDirty(page)) __ClearPageDirty(page); + if (PageMlocked(page)) { + /* Page is unused so no need to take the lru lock */ + __ClearPageMlocked(page); + dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_MLOCK); + } /* * For now, we report if PG_reserved was found set, but do not * clear it, and do not free the page. But we shall soon need @@ -588,6 +594,7 @@ static int prep_new_page(struct page *pa 1 << PG_swapcache | 1 << PG_writeback | 1 << PG_reserved | + 1 << PG_mlocked | 1 << PG_buddy )))) bad_page(page); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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