Re: mm related crash

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On Mon 14-12-15 11:24:33, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 05:48:01PM +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > Hi Kirill,
> > 
> > I got following crash on my desktop machine while building swift. It
> > reproduces pretty easily on 4.4-rc4.
> > 
> > Before it happens the ld process is killed by OOM killer. I attached the
> > whole dmesg.
> > 
> > [  254.740603] page:ffffea00111c31c0 count:2 mapcount:0 mapping:          (null) index:0x0
> > [  254.740636] flags: 0x5fff8000048028(uptodate|lru|swapcache|swapbacked)
> > [  254.740655] page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page))
> > [  254.740679] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > [  254.740690] kernel BUG at mm/memcontrol.c:5270!
> 
> 
> Hm. I don't see how this can happen.

What a coincidence. I have just posted a similar report:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151214100156.GA4540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx except I
have hit the VM_BUG_ON from a different path. My suspicion is that
somebody unlocks the page while we are waiting on the writeback.
I am trying to reproduce this now.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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