Re: Linux 5.0 regression: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff888023e26778 RIP: e030:move_page_tables+0x7c1/0xae0

[Juergen Gross]

On 09/02/2019 19:45, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> On 09/02/2019 09:26, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
>> L.S.,
>>
>>
>> While testing a Linux 5.0-rc5-ish kernel (pull of yesterday) with some additional patches for
>> already reported other issues i came across the issue below which i haven't seen with 4.20.x
>>
>> I haven't got a reproducer so i might be hard to hit it again, 
>> system is AMD and this is from the host kernel running under
>> the Xen hypervisor might it matter.
> 
>> --
>>
>> Sander
> 
> Hi Boris / Juergen,
> 
> The commit causing this is:
> 2c91bd4a4e2e530582d6fd643ea7b86b27907151 mm: speed up mremap by 20x on large regions
> 
> Since it seems there haven't been any other reports about this .. 
> could it be this doesn't specifically work well with a Xen PVH dom0 ?

PVH? Not PV?


Juergen