Hi Andrew, your patch "mm-per-thread-vma-caching-fix-5" in linux-next (see below) breaks s390: [ 10.101173] kernel BUG at mm/vmacache.c:76! [ 10.101206] illegal operation: 0001 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC [ 10.101210] Modules linked in: [ 10.101212] CPU: 3 PID: 2286 Comm: ifup-eth Not tainted 3.14.0-rc6-00193-g7f31667faba3 #20 [ 10.101214] task: 000000003f65cb90 ti: 000000003db30000 task.ti: 000000003db30000 [ 10.101220] Krnl PSW : 0704d00180000000 000000000025df40 (vma_interval_tree_augment_rotate+0x0/0x64) [ 10.101222] R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:1 PM:0 EA:3 Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000000 0000000000000018 000000003a42cfd0 00000000800fb000 [ 10.101225] 0000000000000001 000000003f65cb90 0000000000000000 000000003dbacba8 [ 10.101226] 0705100180000000 000000003dbacb00 000000003f65cb90 000000003dbacb00 [ 10.101227] 000000003a42cfd0 00000000800fb000 0000000000269e54 000000003db33d80 [ 10.101235] Krnl Code: 000000000025df32: e3b0c0400020 cg %r11,64(%r12) 000000000025df38: a784ffd1 brc 8,25deda #000000000025df3c: a7f40001 brc 15,25df3e >000000000025df40: e31020180004 lg %r1,24(%r2) 000000000025df46: e31030180024 stg %r1,24(%r3) 000000000025df4c: e3302fb0ff04 lg %r3,-80(%r2) 000000000025df52: e31020400004 lg %r1,64(%r2) 000000000025df58: e3302fa8ff09 sg %r3,-88(%r2) [ 10.101251] Call Trace: [ 10.101253] ([<000000003dbacb00>] 0x3dbacb00) [ 10.101256] [<00000000007a62da>] do_protection_exception+0x12a/0x3b4 [ 10.101258] [<00000000007a4862>] pgm_check_handler+0x17a/0x17e [ 10.101259] [<0000000080086806>] 0x80086806 [ 10.101260] INFO: lockdep is turned off. [ 10.101261] Last Breaking-Event-Address: [ 10.101262] [<000000000025df3c>] vmacache_find+0x80/0x84 [ 10.101264] [ 10.101265] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception: panic_on_oops Given that this is just an addon patch to Davidlohr's "mm: per-thread vma caching" patch I was wondering if something in there is architecture specific. But it doesn't look like that. So I'm wondering if this only breaks on s390? commit 7f31667faba32a4cf1e20d042c17783168c95f1b Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Mar 17 11:23:53 2014 +1100 mm-per-thread-vma-caching-fix-5 a sanity check Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/mm/vmacache.c b/mm/vmacache.c index add3162bf735..a265dd338228 100644 --- a/mm/vmacache.c +++ b/mm/vmacache.c @@ -72,8 +72,10 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vmacache_find(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr) for (i = 0; i < VMACACHE_SIZE; i++) { struct vm_area_struct *vma = current->vmacache[i]; - if (vma && vma->vm_start <= addr && vma->vm_end > addr) + if (vma && vma->vm_start <= addr && vma->vm_end > addr) { + BUG_ON(vma->vm_mm != mm); return vma; + } } return NULL; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html