Re: BUG: Bad page map in process udevd (anon_vma: (null)) in 2.6.38-rc4

[Eric W. Biederman]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Eric W. Biederman
> <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> fedora 14
>> ext4 on all filesystems
>
> Your dmesg snippets had ext3 mentioned, though:
>
>   <6>EXT3-fs (sda1): recovery required on readonly filesystem
>   <6>EXT3-fs (sda1): write access will be enabled during recovery
>   <6>EXT3-fs: barriers not enabled
>   ..
>   <6>EXT3-fs (sda1): recovery complete
>   <6>EXT3-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
>   <6>dracut: Mounted root filesystem /dev/sda1
>
> not that I see that it should matter, but there's been some bigger
> ext3 changes too (like the batched discard).
>
> I don't really think ext3 is the issue, though.

Oh right.  I changed the configuration but I haven't upgraded this
machine off of ext3 root yet.   The partition where all of the data is
going is ext4.  Creating a chrooted build environment on the fly is
great but it can momentarily swamp the disk.

>> I was about to say this happens with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC enabled but it
>> appears that options keeps eluding my fingers when I have a few minutes
>> to play with it. ÂPerhaps this time will be the charm.
>
> Please do. You seem to be much better at triggering it than anybody
> else. And do the DEBUG_LIST and DEBUG_SLUB_ON things too (even if the
> DEBUG_LIST thing won't catch list_move())

DEBUG_LIST I did manage to get enabled and it didn't catch anything,
despite some bad PMD's showing up.  The other two should be enabled in
the kernel version I am building right now.

It does look like this can go quiet for a days at a time.  The 17th is
the first my logs show of it since the 14th.

messages:Feb 14 17:55:12 bs38 kernel: BUG: Bad page map in process [manager]  pte:ffff88028c45f748 pmd:28c45f067
messages:Feb 14 17:55:12 bs38 kernel: BUG: Bad page map in process [manager]  pte:ffff88028c45f748 pmd:28c45f067
messages:Feb 17 00:49:53 bs38 kernel: BUG: Bad page map in process Sysdb  pte:ffff8802742b3758 pmd:2742b3067
messages:Feb 17 00:49:53 bs38 kernel: BUG: Bad page map in process Sysdb  pte:ffff8802742b3758 pmd:2742b3067
messages:Feb 17 10:00:43 bs38 kernel: BUG: Bad page map in process cc1plus  pte:ffff880190f73758 pmd:190f73067
messages:Feb 17 10:00:43 bs38 kernel: BUG: Bad page map in process cc1plus  pte:ffff88025efed758 pmd:25efed067
messages:Feb 17 10:00:43 bs38 kernel: BUG: Bad page map in process cc1plus  pte:ffff88025efed758 pmd:25efed067
messages:Feb 17 10:00:43 bs38 kernel: BUG: Bad page map in process cc1plus  pte:ffff880190f73758 pmd:190f73067

Eric
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