Hi all, I've reported a few issues which got a "that's impossible response" (BUG at mm/rmap.c:530 and BUG at include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:724). I've just hit the following on few of my VMs, which might be able to explain that: [ 3832.961261] ============================================================================= [ 3832.970028] BUG page->ptl (Not tainted): Redzone overwritten [ 3832.970028] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ 3832.970028] [ 3832.970028] INFO: 0xffff8802841bc368-0xffff8802841bc36f. First byte 0x0 instead of 0xcc [ 3832.970028] INFO: Slab 0xffffea000a106f00 objects=40 used=36 fp=0xffff8802841be3f0 flags=0x6fffff80004081 [ 3832.970028] INFO: Object 0xffff8802841bc320 @offset=800 fp=0x (null) [ 3832.970028] [ 3832.970028] Bytes b4 ffff8802841bc310: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ [ 3832.970028] Object ffff8802841bc320: 36 03 36 03 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 6.6............. [ 3832.970028] Object ffff8802841bc330: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 38 c3 1b 84 02 88 ff ff ........8....... [ 3832.970028] Object ffff8802841bc340: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ [ 3832.970028] Object ffff8802841bc350: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ [ 3832.970028] Object ffff8802841bc360: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ [ 3832.970028] Redzone ffff8802841bc368: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ [ 3832.970028] Padding ffff8802841bc4a8: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ [ 3832.970028] CPU: 3 PID: 12505 Comm: trinity-c647 Tainted: G B 3.17.0-rc3-next-20140903-sasha-00034-g33e7ae9 #1108 [ 3832.970028] ffff8802841bc320 ffff88073a407898 ffffffffae4f3a19 0000000000000003 [ 3832.970028] ffff88027740ad80 ffff88073a4078c8 ffffffffab2ffe41 ffff8802841bc370 [ 3832.970028] ffff88027740ad80 00000000000000cc ffff8802841bc320 ffff88073a407918 [ 3832.970028] Call Trace: [ 3832.970028] dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52) [ 3832.970028] print_trailer (mm/slub.c:640) [ 3832.970028] check_bytes_and_report (mm/slub.c:679 mm/slub.c:703) [ 3832.970028] check_object (mm/slub.c:803) [ 3832.970028] free_debug_processing (mm/slub.c:1073) [ 3832.970028] ? get_parent_ip (kernel/sched/core.c:2570) [ 3832.970028] ? ptlock_free (mm/memory.c:3829) [ 3832.970028] __slab_free (mm/slub.c:2526 (discriminator 1)) [ 3832.970028] ? __debug_check_no_obj_freed (lib/debugobjects.c:713) [ 3832.970028] ? get_parent_ip (kernel/sched/core.c:2570) [ 3832.970028] kmem_cache_free (mm/slub.c:2672 mm/slub.c:2681) [ 3832.970028] ? ptlock_free (mm/memory.c:3829) [ 3832.970028] ptlock_free (mm/memory.c:3829) [ 3832.970028] ___pte_free_tlb (include/linux/mm.h:1502 arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c:56) [ 3832.970028] free_pgd_range (mm/memory.c:396 mm/memory.c:413 mm/memory.c:446 mm/memory.c:522) [ 3832.970028] ? kmem_cache_free (mm/slub.c:2672 mm/slub.c:2681) [ 3832.970028] free_pgtables (mm/memory.c:554 (discriminator 3)) [ 3832.970028] exit_mmap (mm/mmap.c:2821) [ 3832.970028] mmput (kernel/fork.c:654) [ 3832.970028] do_exit (./arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h:168 kernel/exit.c:461 kernel/exit.c:745) [ 3832.970028] ? get_signal (kernel/signal.c:2199) [ 3832.970028] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq (./arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:819 include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:168 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:199) [ 3832.970028] do_group_exit (kernel/exit.c:886) [ 3832.970028] get_signal (kernel/signal.c:2350) [ 3832.970028] do_signal (arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:698) [ 3832.970028] ? get_parent_ip (kernel/sched/core.c:2570) [ 3832.970028] ? context_tracking_user_exit (./arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:809 (discriminator 2) kernel/context_tracking.c:184 (discriminator 2)) [ 3832.970028] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2566) [ 3832.970028] ? trace_hardirqs_on (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2609) [ 3832.970028] do_notify_resume (arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:751) [ 3832.970028] int_signal (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:600) [ 3832.970028] FIX page->ptl: Restoring 0xffff8802841bc368-0xffff8802841bc36f=0xcc We're seeing here what we saw on the other two bug reports where memory is being zeroed out, exactly like it was here. Thanks, Sasha -- 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>