Hi Xiongfeng, thanks for taking the time to look at this. On Wed, 2022-02-09 at 16:55 +0800, Xiongfeng Wang wrote: > Hi Nicolas, > > When I applied the patchset on the following commit and tested on QEMU, I came > accross the following CallTrace. > commit dd81e1c7d5fb126e5fbc5c9e334d7b3ec29a16a0 > > I wrote a userspace application to consume the memory. When the memory is used > out, the OOM killer is triggered and the following Calltrace is printed. I am > not sure if it is related to this patchset. But when I reverted this patchset, > the 'NULL pointer' Calltrace didn't show. It's a silly mistake on my part, while cleaning up the code I messed up one of the 'struct per_cpu_pages' accessors. This should fix it: ------------------------->8------------------------- diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 0caa7155ca34..e65b991c3dc8 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -3279,7 +3279,7 @@ static void __drain_all_pages(struct zone *zone, bool force_all_cpus) has_pcps = true; } else { for_each_populated_zone(z) { - pcp = per_cpu_ptr(zone->per_cpu_pageset, cpu); + pcp = per_cpu_ptr(z->per_cpu_pageset, cpu); lp = rcu_dereference_protected(pcp->lp, mutex_is_locked(&pcpu_drain_mutex)); if (lp->count) { ------------------------->8------------------------- Thanks! -- Nicolás Sáenz