On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 06:06:11PM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 08:33:02AM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> >> On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 6:12 AM, Pat Erley <pat-lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > I'm seeing the message in $subject on my Xen DOM0 on next-20150204 on
> >> > x86_64. I haven't had time to bisect it, but have seen some discussion on
> >> > similar topics here recently. I can trigger this pretty reliably by
> >> > watching Netflix. At some point (minutes to hours) into it, the netflix
> >> > video goes black (audio keeps going, so it still thinks it's working) and
> >> > the error appears in dmesg. Refreshing the page gets the video going again,
> >> > and it will continue playing for some indeterminate amount of time.
> >> >
> >> > Kirill, I've CC'd you as looking in the logs, you've patched a false
> >> > positive trigger of this very recently(patch in kernel I'm running). Am I
> >> > actually hitting a problem, or is this another false positive case? Any
> >> > additional details that might help?
> >> >
> >> > Dmesg from system attached.
> >>
> >> [ CC some mm folks ]
> >>
> >> I have seen this, too.
> >>
> >> root# grep "BUG: non-zero nr_pmds on freeing mm:" /var/log/kern.log | wc -l
> >> 21
> >>
> >> Checking my logs: On next-20150203 and next-20150204.
> >>
> >> I am here not in a VM environment and cannot say what causes these messages.
> >
> > Sorry, my fault.
> >
> > The patch below should fix that.
> >
> > From 11bce596e653302e41f819435912f01ca8cbc27e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 18:34:56 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH] mm: fix race on pmd accounting
> >
> > Do not account the pmd table to the process if other thread allocated it
> > under us.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Still building with the fix...
>
> Please feel free to add Pat as a reporter.
>
> Reported-by: Pat Erley <pat-lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Is that fixing...?
>
> commit daa1b0f29cdccae269123e7f8ae0348dbafdc3a7
> "mm: account pmd page tables to the process"
>
> If yes, please add a Fixes-tag [2]...
>
> Fixes: daa1b0f29cdc ("mm: account pmd page tables to the process")
>
> I will re-test with LTP/mmap and report.
The commit is not in Linus tree, so the sha1-id is goinging to change.
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Kirill A. Shutemov
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