Michal Hocko wrote: > On Wed 10-01-18 20:49:56, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > > Tetsuo Handa wrote: > > > I can hit this bug with Linux 4.11 and 4.8. (i.e. at least all 4.8+ have this bug.) > > > So far I haven't hit this bug with Linux 4.8-rc3 and 4.7. > > > Does anyone know what is happening? > > > > I simplified the reproducer and succeeded to reproduce this bug with both > > i7-2630QM (8 core) and i5-4440S (4 core). Thus, I think that this bug is > > not architecture specific. > > Can you see the same with 64b kernel? No. I can hit this bug with only x86_32 kernels. But if the cause is not specific to 32b, this might be silent memory corruption. > It smells like a ref count imbalance and premature page free to me. Can > you try to bisect this? Too difficult to bisect, but at least I can hit this bug with 4.8+ kernels. The XXX in "count:XXX mapcount:XXX mapping:XXX index:XXX" are rather random as if they are overwritten. [ 44.103192] page:5a5a0697 count:-1055023618 mapcount:-1055030029 mapping:26f4be11 index:0xc11d7c83 [ 44.103196] flags: 0xc10528fe(waiters|error|referenced|uptodate|dirty|lru|active|reserved|private_2|mappedtodisk|swapbacked) [ 44.103200] raw: c10528fe c114fff7 c11d7c83 c11d84f2 c11d9dfe c11daa34 c11daaa0 c13e65df [ 44.103201] raw: c13e4a1c c13e4c62 [ 44.103202] page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_ref_count(page) <= 0) [ 44.103203] page->mem_cgroup:35401b27 [ 192.152510] BUG: Bad page state in process a.out pfn:18566 [ 192.152513] page:f72997f0 count:0 mapcount:8 mapping:f118f5a4 index:0x0 [ 192.152516] flags: 0x19010019(locked|uptodate|dirty|mappedtodisk) [ 192.152520] raw: 19010019 f118f5a4 00000000 00000007 00000000 f7299804 f7299804 00000000 [ 192.152521] raw: 00000000 00000000 [ 192.152521] page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set [ 192.152522] bad because of flags: 0x1(locked) [ 77.872133] BUG: Bad page state in process a.out pfn:1873a [ 77.872136] page:f729e110 count:0 mapcount:6 mapping:f1187224 index:0x0 [ 77.872138] flags: 0x19010019(locked|uptodate|dirty|mappedtodisk) [ 77.872141] raw: 19010019 f1187224 00000000 00000005 00000000 f729e124 f729e124 00000000 [ 77.872141] raw: 00000000 00000000 [ 77.872142] page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set [ 77.872142] bad because of flags: 0x1(locked) [ 188.992549] BUG: Bad page state in process a.out pfn:197ea [ 188.992551] page:f72c7c90 count:0 mapcount:12 mapping:f11b8ca4 index:0x0 [ 188.992554] flags: 0x19010019(locked|uptodate|dirty|mappedtodisk) [ 188.992557] raw: 19010019 f11b8ca4 00000000 0000000b 00000000 f72c7ca4 f72c7ca4 00000000 [ 188.992557] raw: 00000000 00000000 [ 188.992558] page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set [ 188.992559] bad because of flags: 0x1(locked) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>