Re: mm: kernel BUG at mm/huge_memory.c:2785!

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:03 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov
<kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sasha Levin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running latest -next kernel I've stumbled on the
>> following spew:
>>
>> [ 1428.146261] kernel BUG at mm/huge_memory.c:2785!
>
> Hm, interesting.
>
> It seems we either failed to split huge page on vma split or it
> materialized from under us. I don't see how it can happen:
>
>   - it seems we do the right thing with vma_adjust_trans_huge() in
>     __split_vma();
>   - we hold ->mmap_sem all the way from vm_munmap(). At least I don't see
>     a place where we could drop it;
>

Enable CONFIG_DEBUG_VM may show some useful information, at least we
can confirm weather rwsem_is_locked(&tlb->mm->mmap_sem) before
split_huge_page_pmd().

-- 
Regards,
--Bob

--
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>




[Index of Archives]     [Linux ARM Kernel]     [Linux ARM]     [Linux Omap]     [Fedora ARM]     [IETF Annouce]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux]     [Linux OMAP]     [Linux MIPS]     [ECOS]     [Asterisk Internet PBX]     [Linux API]