On 2019/01/29 16:21, Jiufei Xue wrote: > Trinity reports BUG: > > sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/vmalloc.c:1477 > in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 12269, name: trinity-c1 > > [ 2748.573460] Call Trace: > [ 2748.575935] dump_stack+0x91/0xeb > [ 2748.578512] ___might_sleep+0x21c/0x250 > [ 2748.581090] remove_vm_area+0x1d/0x90 > [ 2748.583637] __vunmap+0x76/0x100 > [ 2748.586120] __se_sys_swapon+0xb9a/0x1220 > [ 2748.598973] do_syscall_64+0x60/0x210 > [ 2748.601439] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe > > This is triggered by calling kvfree() inside spinlock() section in > function alloc_swap_info(). > Fix this by moving the kvfree() after spin_unlock(). > Excuse me? But isn't kvfree() safe to be called with spinlock held? There was no context explanation regarding kvfree() for 4.18.20. 4.19.18 says Context: Any context except NMI. and 4.20.5 says Context: Either preemptible task context or not-NMI interrupt. . There might be users who didn't notice this change.