On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 07:31:49AM +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > Thanks for testing. Unfortunately Heiko reported another issue yesterday > with the patch applied. This time the other way around: > > BUG: non-zero pgtables_bytes on freeing mm: -16384 > > I am trying to understand how this can happen. For now I would like to > keep the patch on hold in case they need another change. FWIW, Kirill: is there a reason why this "BUG:" output is done with pr_alert() and not with VM_BUG_ON() or one of the WARN*() variants? That would to get more information with DEBUG_VM and / or panic_on_warn=1 set. At least for automated testing it would be nice to have such triggers.