The stack looks like this: [<ffffffff81192015>] put_super+0x25/0x40 [<ffffffff811920f2>] drop_super+0x22/0x30 [<ffffffff81193199>] prune_super+0x149/0x1b0 [<ffffffff8113f241>] shrink_slab+0xa1/0x2d0 [<ffffffff81142b09>] balance_pgdat+0x609/0x7d0 [<ffffffff81142e44>] kswapd+0x174/0x450 [<ffffffff81081810>] kthread+0xc0/0xd0 [<ffffffff8161e3ac>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff /proc/meminfo says: $ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 3934452 kB MemFree: 865764 kB Buffers: 398132 kB Cached: 1527112 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 1586392 kB Inactive: 1236996 kB Active(anon): 1000348 kB Inactive(anon): 40136 kB Active(file): 586044 kB Inactive(file): 1196860 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Dirty: 484 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 898124 kB Mapped: 111668 kB Shmem: 142340 kB Slab: 132552 kB SReclaimable: 86612 kB SUnreclaim: 45940 kB KernelStack: 2920 kB PageTables: 27052 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 1967224 kB Committed_AS: 2492792 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 376628 kB VmallocChunk: 34359339160 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 118784 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 90112 kB DirectMap2M: 3995648 kB /proc/zoneinfo says: Node 0, zone DMA pages free 3975 min 65 low 81 high 97 scanned 0 spanned 4080 present 3911 nr_free_pages 3975 nr_inactive_anon 0 nr_active_anon 0 nr_inactive_file 0 nr_active_file 0 nr_unevictable 0 nr_mlock 0 nr_anon_pages 0 nr_mapped 0 nr_file_pages 0 nr_dirty 0 nr_writeback 0 nr_slab_reclaimable 0 nr_slab_unreclaimable 0 nr_page_table_pages 0 nr_kernel_stack 0 nr_unstable 0 nr_bounce 0 nr_vmscan_write 0 nr_vmscan_immediate_reclaim 0 nr_writeback_temp 0 nr_isolated_anon 0 nr_isolated_file 0 nr_shmem 0 nr_dirtied 0 nr_written 0 numa_hit 0 numa_miss 0 numa_foreign 0 numa_interleave 0 numa_local 0 numa_other 0 nr_anon_transparent_hugepages 0 nr_free_cma 0 protection: (0, 3417, 3896, 3896) pagesets cpu: 0 count: 0 high: 0 batch: 1 vm stats threshold: 4 cpu: 1 count: 0 high: 0 batch: 1 vm stats threshold: 4 cpu: 2 count: 0 high: 0 batch: 1 vm stats threshold: 4 cpu: 3 count: 0 high: 0 batch: 1 vm stats threshold: 4 all_unreclaimable: 1 start_pfn: 16 inactive_ratio: 1 Node 0, zone DMA32 pages free 208727 min 14763 low 18453 high 22144 scanned 0 spanned 1044480 present 874976 nr_free_pages 208727 nr_inactive_anon 7218 nr_active_anon 189293 nr_inactive_file 295611 nr_active_file 142566 nr_unevictable 0 nr_mlock 0 nr_anon_pages 138923 nr_mapped 25584 nr_file_pages 467056 nr_dirty 208 nr_writeback 0 nr_slab_reclaimable 16532 nr_slab_unreclaimable 3813 nr_page_table_pages 4940 nr_kernel_stack 164 nr_unstable 0 nr_bounce 0 nr_vmscan_write 0 nr_vmscan_immediate_reclaim 0 nr_writeback_temp 0 nr_isolated_anon 0 nr_isolated_file 0 nr_shmem 28879 nr_dirtied 3350046 nr_written 2639131 numa_hit 47784160 numa_miss 0 numa_foreign 0 numa_interleave 0 numa_local 47784160 numa_other 0 nr_anon_transparent_hugepages 56 nr_free_cma 0 protection: (0, 0, 478, 478) pagesets cpu: 0 count: 162 high: 186 batch: 31 vm stats threshold: 36 cpu: 1 count: 77 high: 186 batch: 31 vm stats threshold: 36 cpu: 2 count: 89 high: 186 batch: 31 vm stats threshold: 36 cpu: 3 count: 136 high: 186 batch: 31 vm stats threshold: 36 all_unreclaimable: 0 start_pfn: 4096 inactive_ratio: 5 Node 0, zone Normal pages free 2318 min 2066 low 2582 high 3099 scanned 0 spanned 124416 present 122472 nr_free_pages 2318 nr_inactive_anon 2842 nr_active_anon 62181 nr_inactive_file 3522 nr_active_file 3943 nr_unevictable 0 nr_mlock 0 nr_anon_pages 57301 nr_mapped 2333 nr_file_pages 14163 nr_dirty 3 nr_writeback 0 nr_slab_reclaimable 5121 nr_slab_unreclaimable 7647 nr_page_table_pages 1824 nr_kernel_stack 201 nr_unstable 0 nr_bounce 0 nr_vmscan_write 0 nr_vmscan_immediate_reclaim 77236 nr_writeback_temp 0 nr_isolated_anon 0 nr_isolated_file 0 nr_shmem 6698 nr_dirtied 297229 nr_written 234810 numa_hit 29846177 numa_miss 0 numa_foreign 0 numa_interleave 17548 numa_local 29846177 numa_other 0 nr_anon_transparent_hugepages 2 nr_free_cma 0 protection: (0, 0, 0, 0) pagesets cpu: 0 count: 171 high: 186 batch: 31 vm stats threshold: 125 cpu: 1 count: 143 high: 186 batch: 31 vm stats threshold: 125 cpu: 2 count: 169 high: 186 batch: 31 vm stats threshold: 125 cpu: 3 count: 116 high: 186 batch: 31 vm stats threshold: 125 all_unreclaimable: 0 start_pfn: 1048576 inactive_ratio: 1 This is a Lenovo x220 with 4G ram, and IIRC it has an odd memory map with a tiny high memory zone. It's triggered bugs like this before. --Andy -- 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>