> > Either way, last night I applied a patch on top of latest tip/master to > remove the nr_cpus_allowed check so that numacore would be enabled again > and tested that. In some places it has indeed much improved. In others > it is still regressing badly and in two case, it's corrupting memory -- > specjbb when THP is enabled crashes when running for single or multiple > JVMs. It is likely that a zero page is being inserted due to a race with > migration and causes the JVM to throw a null pointer exception. Here is > the comparison on the rough off-chance you actually read it this time. I see this failure when running with THP and KSM enabled on Friday's Tip master. Not sure if Mel was talking about the same issue. ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at ../kernel/sched/fair.c:2371! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: ebtable_nat ebtables autofs4 sunrpc cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq freq_table mperf bridge stp llc iptable_filter ip_tables ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6 vhost_net macvtap macvlan tun iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support kvm_intel kvm microcode cdc_ether usbnet mii serio_raw i2c_i801 i2c_core lpc_ich mfd_core shpchp ioatdma i7core_edac edac_core bnx2 sg ixgbe dca mdio ext4 mbcache jbd2 sd_mod crc_t10dif mptsas mptscsih mptbase scsi_transport_sas dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod CPU 4 Pid: 116, comm: ksmd Not tainted 3.7.0-rc8-tip_master+ #5 IBM BladeCenter HS22V -[7871AC1]-/81Y5995 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8108c139>] [<ffffffff8108c139>] task_numa_fault+0x1a9/0x1e0 RSP: 0018:ffff880372237ba8 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000074 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000001 RDX: 00000000000012ae RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: 00007faf4fc01000 RBP: ffff880372237be8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff8803657463f0 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000012 R13: ffff880372210d00 R14: 0000000000010088 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88037fc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000001d26fec CR3: 000000000169f000 CR4: 00000000000027e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process ksmd (pid: 116, threadinfo ffff880372236000, task ffff880372210d00) Stack: ffffea0016026c58 00007faf4fc00000 ffff880372237c48 0000000000000001 00007faf4fc01000 ffffea000d6df928 0000000000000001 ffffea00166e9268 ffff880372237c48 ffffffff8113cd0e ffff880300000001 0000000000000002 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8113cd0e>] __do_numa_page+0xde/0x160 [<ffffffff8113de9e>] handle_pte_fault+0x32e/0xcd0 [<ffffffffa01c22c0>] ? drop_large_spte+0x30/0x30 [kvm] [<ffffffffa01bf215>] ? kvm_set_spte_hva+0x25/0x30 [kvm] [<ffffffff8113eab9>] handle_mm_fault+0x279/0x760 [<ffffffff8115c024>] break_ksm+0x74/0xa0 [<ffffffff8115c222>] break_cow+0xa2/0xb0 [<ffffffff8115e38c>] ksm_scan_thread+0xb5c/0xd50 [<ffffffff810771c0>] ? wake_up_bit+0x40/0x40 [<ffffffff8115d830>] ? run_store+0x340/0x340 [<ffffffff8107692e>] kthread+0xce/0xe0 [<ffffffff81076860>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70 [<ffffffff814fa7ac>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [<ffffffff81076860>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70 Code: 89 f0 41 bf 01 00 00 00 8b 1c 10 e9 d7 fe ff ff 8d 14 09 48 63 d2 eb bd 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 49 8b 85 98 07 00 00 eb 91 <0f> 0b eb fe 80 3d 9c 3b 6b 00 01 0f 84 be fe ff ff be 42 09 00 RIP [<ffffffff8108c139>] task_numa_fault+0x1a9/0x1e0 RSP <ffff880372237ba8> ---[ end trace 9584c9b03fc0dbc0 ]--- -- 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>