Re: [Bad page] trying to free locked page? (Re: [PATCH][RFC] fix kernel BUG at mm/migrate.c:719! in 2.6.26-rc5-mm3)

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Tue Jun 17 2008 - 05:15:19 EST


> > > I got this bug while migrating pages only a few times
> > > via memory_migrate of cpuset.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, even if this patch is applied,
> > > I got bad_page problem after hundreds times of page migration
> > > (I'll report it in another mail).
> > > But I believe something like this patch is needed anyway.
> > >
> >
> > I got bad_page after hundreds times of page migration.
> > It seems that a locked page is being freed.
> >
> Good catch, and I think your investigation in the last e-mail was correct.
> I'd like to dig this...but it seems some kind of big fix is necessary.
> Did this happen under page-migraion by cpuset-task-move test ?

Indeed!

I guess lee's unevictable infrastructure and nick's specurative pagecache
is conflicted.
I'm investigating deeply now.



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