We usually don't call PageDoubleMap() on small or tail pages, but during read from /proc/kpageflags we don't protect the page from being freed under us and it can lead to VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() in PageDoubleMap(): page:ffffea00033e0000 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping: (null) index:0x700000200 flags: 0x4000000000000000() page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(page)) page->mem_cgroup:ffff88021588cc00 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at /src/linux-dev/include/linux/page-flags.h:552! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Modules linked in: cfg80211 rfkill crc32c_intel virtio_balloon serio_raw i2c_piix4 virtio_blk virtio_net ata_generic pata_acpi CPU: 0 PID: 1183 Comm: page-types Not tainted 4.2.0-mmotm-2015-10-21-14-41-151027-1418-00014-41+ #179 Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 task: ffff880214a08bc0 ti: ffff880213e2c000 task.ti: ffff880213e2c000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff812434b6>] [<ffffffff812434b6>] stable_page_flags+0x336/0x340 RSP: 0018:ffff880213e2fda8 EFLAGS: 00010292 RAX: 0000000000000021 RBX: ffff8802150a39c0 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffff88021ec0ff38 RSI: ffff88021ec0d658 RDI: ffff88021ec0d658 RBP: ffff880213e2fdc8 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 000000000000132f R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000132f R12: 4000000000000000 R13: ffffea00033e6340 R14: 00007fff8449e430 R15: ffffea00033e6340 FS: 00007ff7f9525700(0000) GS:ffff88021ec00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000000000063b800 CR3: 00000000d9e71000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 Stack: ffff8800db82df80 ffff8802150a39c0 0000000000000008 00000000000cf98d ffff880213e2fe18 ffffffff81243588 00007fff8449e430 ffff880213e2ff20 000000000063b800 ffff8802150a39c0 fffffffffffffffb ffff880213e2ff20 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81243588>] kpageflags_read+0xc8/0x130 [<ffffffff81235848>] proc_reg_read+0x48/0x70 [<ffffffff811d6b08>] __vfs_read+0x28/0xd0 [<ffffffff812ee43e>] ? security_file_permission+0xae/0xc0 [<ffffffff811d6f53>] ? rw_verify_area+0x53/0xf0 [<ffffffff811d707a>] vfs_read+0x8a/0x130 [<ffffffff811d7bf7>] SyS_pread64+0x77/0x90 [<ffffffff81648117>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6a Code: ca 00 00 40 01 48 39 c1 48 0f 44 da e9 a2 fd ff ff 48 c7 c6 50 a6 a1 8 1 e8 58 ab f4 ff 0f 0b 48 c7 c6 90 a2 a1 81 e8 4a ab f4 ff <0f> 0b 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 66 66 66 90 55 48 89 e5 41 57 RIP [<ffffffff812434b6>] stable_page_flags+0x336/0x340 RSP <ffff880213e2fda8> ---[ end trace e5d18553088c026a ]--- Let's drop the VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() from PageDoubleMap() and return false for non-head pages. The patch can be folded into "mm: rework mapcount accounting to enable 4k mapping of THPs" Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/page-flags.h | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h index 72356fbc3f2d..26cc7a068126 100644 --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h @@ -549,8 +549,7 @@ static inline int PageTransTail(struct page *page) */ static inline int PageDoubleMap(struct page *page) { - VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(page), page); - return test_bit(PG_double_map, &page[1].flags); + return PageHead(page) && test_bit(PG_double_map, &page[1].flags); } static inline int TestSetPageDoubleMap(struct page *page) -- 2.6.1 -- 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>