The patch titled Subject: mm/migrate: fix refcount handling when !hugepage_migration_supported() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-migrate-fix-ref-count-handling-when-hugepage_migration_supported-v2.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-migrate-fix-ref-count-handling-when-hugepage_migration_supported-v2.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-migrate-fix-ref-count-handling-when-hugepage_migration_supported-v2.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@xxxxxxx> Subject: mm/migrate: fix refcount handling when !hugepage_migration_supported() On failing to migrate a page, soft_offline_huge_page() performs the necessary update to the hugepage ref-count. When !hugepage_migration_supported() , unmap_and_move_hugepage() also decrements the page ref-count for the hugepage. The combined behaviour leaves the ref-count in an inconsistent state. This leads to soft lockups when running the overcommitted hugepage test from mce-tests suite. Soft offlining pfn 0x83ed600 at process virtual address 0x400000000000 soft offline: 0x83ed600: migration failed 1, type 1fffc00000008008 (uptodate|head) INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-7): P2715 (detected by 7, t=5254 jiffies, g=963, c=962, q=321) thugetlb_overco R running task 0 2715 2685 0x00000008 Call trace: [<ffff000008089f90>] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x268 [<ffff00000808a2d4>] show_stack+0x24/0x30 [<ffff000008100d34>] sched_show_task+0x134/0x180 [<ffff0000081c90fc>] rcu_print_detail_task_stall_rnp+0x54/0x7c [<ffff00000813cfd4>] rcu_check_callbacks+0xa74/0xb08 [<ffff000008143a3c>] update_process_times+0x34/0x60 [<ffff0000081550e8>] tick_sched_handle.isra.7+0x38/0x70 [<ffff00000815516c>] tick_sched_timer+0x4c/0x98 [<ffff0000081442e0>] __hrtimer_run_queues+0xc0/0x300 [<ffff000008144fa4>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xac/0x228 [<ffff0000089a56d4>] arch_timer_handler_phys+0x3c/0x50 [<ffff00000812f1bc>] handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x8c/0x290 [<ffff0000081297fc>] generic_handle_irq+0x34/0x50 [<ffff000008129f00>] __handle_domain_irq+0x68/0xc0 [<ffff0000080816b4>] gic_handle_irq+0x5c/0xb0 Address this by changing the putback_active_hugepage() in soft_offline_huge_page() to putback_movable_pages(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170525135146.32011-1-punit.agrawal@xxxxxxx Reported-by: Manoj Iyer <manoj.iyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Manoj Iyer <manoj.iyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@xxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [3.14+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory-failure.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/memory-failure.c~mm-migrate-fix-ref-count-handling-when-hugepage_migration_supported-v2 mm/memory-failure.c --- a/mm/memory-failure.c~mm-migrate-fix-ref-count-handling-when-hugepage_migration_supported-v2 +++ a/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -1600,7 +1600,8 @@ static int soft_offline_huge_page(struct * only one hugepage pointed to by hpage, so we need not * run through the pagelist here. */ - putback_active_hugepage(hpage); + if (!list_empty(&pagelist)) + putback_movable_pages(&pagelist); if (ret > 0) ret = -EIO; } else { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from punit.agrawal@xxxxxxx are mm-migrate-fix-ref-count-handling-when-hugepage_migration_supported-v2.patch mm-gup-ensure-real-head-page-is-ref-counted-when-using-hugepages.patch mm-hugetlb-add-size-parameter-to-huge_pte_offset.patch mm-hugetlb-allow-architectures-to-override-huge_pte_clear.patch mm-hugetlb-introduce-set_huge_swap_pte_at-helper.patch mm-hugetlb-introduce-set_huge_swap_pte_at-helper-v4.patch mm-hugetlb-introduce-set_huge_swap_pte_at-helper-v41.patch mm-rmap-use-correct-helper-when-poisoning-hugepages.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html