On Mon 03-02-14 14:29:22, Holger Kiehl wrote: > I have attached it. Please, tell me if you do not get the attachment. I hoped it would help me to get a closer compiled code to yours but I am probably using too different gcc. Anyway I've tried to check whether I can hook on something and it seems that this is a race with thp merge/split or something like that. [...] > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000001c > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: IP: [<ffffffff810af0ac>] isolate_migratepages_range+0x32d/0x653 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: PGD 7d3074067 PUD 7d3073067 PMD 0 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: Modules linked in: drbd lru_cache coretemp ipmi_devintf bonding nf_conntrack_ftp binfmt_misc usbhid i2c_i801 sg ehci_pci i2c_core ehci_hcd uhci_hcd i5000_edac i5k_amb ipmi_si ipmi_msghandler usbcore usb_common [last unloaded: microcode] > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: CPU: 5 PID: 14164 Comm: java Not tainted 3.12.9 #1 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: Hardware name: FUJITSU SIEMENS PRIMERGY RX300 S4 /D2519, BIOS 4.06 Rev. 1.04.2519 07/30/2008 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: task: ffff8807d30b08c0 ti: ffff8807d30b2000 task.ti: ffff8807d30b2000 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810af0ac>] [<ffffffff810af0ac>] isolate_migratepages_range+0x32d/0x653 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: RSP: 0000:ffff8807d30b3928 EFLAGS: 00010286 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000020ec09 RCX: 0000000000000002 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: RDX: 2c00000000008000 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: 000000000000006c > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: RBP: ffff8807d30b39f8 R08: ffff88083fbde390 R09: 0000000000000001 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffea000733a000 R12: ffff8807d30b3a58 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: R13: ffffea000733a1f8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88083ffe1d80 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: FS: 00007f9d9e72f910(0000) GS:ffff88083fd40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: CR2: 000000000000001c CR3: 00000007d3070000 CR4: 00000000000407e0 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: Stack: > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: 0000000000000009 ffff88083ffe16c0 ffffea00002e6af0 ffff8807d30b3998 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: ffff8807d30b2010 00ff8807d30b08c0 ffff8807d30b08c0 000000000020f000 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: 0000000000000000 000000000000083b 000000000000000a ffff8807d30b3a68 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: Call Trace: > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: [<ffffffff810a161f>] ? lru_add_drain_cpu+0x25/0x97 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: [<ffffffff810af687>] compact_zone+0x2b5/0x319 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: [<ffffffff810da586>] ? put_super+0x20/0x2c > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: [<ffffffff810afa4d>] compact_zone_order+0xad/0xc4 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: [<ffffffff810afaf5>] try_to_compact_pages+0x91/0xe8 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: [<ffffffff8109b92d>] ? page_alloc_cpu_notify+0x3e/0x3e > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: [<ffffffff8109da34>] __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0xae/0x195 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: [<ffffffff8109e45d>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x772/0x7b5 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: [<ffffffff810c85a3>] alloc_pages_vma+0xd6/0x101 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: [<ffffffff810d47e3>] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0x199/0x2ee > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: [<ffffffff810b3884>] handle_mm_fault+0x1b7/0xceb > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: [<ffffffff8105dedc>] ? __dequeue_entity+0x2e/0x33 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: [<ffffffff8102d8c3>] __do_page_fault+0x3bd/0x3e4 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: [<ffffffff810bbe1a>] ? mprotect_fixup+0x1c9/0x1fb > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: [<ffffffff810aa0f0>] ? vm_mmap_pgoff+0x6d/0x8f > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: [<ffffffff810795f5>] ? SyS_futex+0x103/0x13d > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: [<ffffffff8102d8f3>] do_page_fault+0x9/0xb > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: [<ffffffff813d3672>] page_fault+0x22/0x30 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: Code: 00 41 f7 45 00 ff ff ff 01 0f 85 43 02 00 00 41 8b 45 18 85 c0 0f 89 37 02 00 00 49 8b 55 00 4c 89 e8 66 85 d2 79 04 49 8b 45 30 <8b> 40 1c 83 f8 01 0f 85 1b 02 00 00 49 8b 55 08 30 c0 48 85 d2 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: RIP [<ffffffff810af0ac>] isolate_migratepages_range+0x32d/0x653 > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: RSP <ffff8807d30b3928> > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: CR2: 000000000000001c > >> Jan 31 13:07:43 asterix kernel: ---[ end trace fba75c5b0b9175ea ]--- This seems to match: 17027: 49 8b 17 mov (%r15),%rdx # page->flags 1702a: 4c 89 f8 mov %r15,%rax 1702d: 80 e6 80 and $0x80,%dh # PageTail test 17030: 74 04 je 17036 <isolate_migratepages_range+0x2bf> 17032: 49 8b 47 30 mov 0x30(%r15),%rax # page = page->first_page 17036: 8b 40 1c mov 0x1c(%rax),%eax <<< page->_count 17039: ff c8 dec %eax Which seems to be inlined compound_head. DH is 0x80 so this is a tail page. This would suggest that tail page doesn't have firs_pages set up properly and it contains NULL. But maybe I've just matched the code incorrectly. Could you try to disassemble your vmlinux a send the generated code, please? Something like objdump -d vmlinux > vmlinux.dis and cut out isolate_migratepages_range function. Or simply upload your vmlinux.dis somewhere so that we can download it. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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>