Re: mm: BUG in do_huge_pmd_wp_page

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Thu May 15 2014 - 13:38:39 EST


On Thu, 15 May 2014, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On 04/07/2014 04:11 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 03:40:46PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> >> > It also breaks fairly quickly under testing because:
> >> >
> >> > On 04/07/2014 10:48 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> >>> > > + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC)) {
> >>> > > + spin_lock(ptl);
> >> >
> >> > ^ We go into atomic
> >> >
> >>> > > + if (unlikely(!pmd_same(*pmd, orig_pmd)))
> >>> > > + goto out_race;
> >>> > > + }
> >>> > > +
> >>> > > if (!page)
> >>> > > clear_huge_page(new_page, haddr, HPAGE_PMD_NR);
> >>> > > else
> >>> > > copy_user_huge_page(new_page, page, haddr, vma, HPAGE_PMD_NR);
> >> >
> >> > copy_user_huge_page() doesn't like running in atomic state,
> >> > and asserts might_sleep().
> > Okay, I'll try something else.
>
> I've Cc'ed Josh Boyer to this since it just occurred to me that Fedora
> is running with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM set, where this bug is rather easy to
> trigger.
>
> This issue was neglected because it triggers only on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM builds,
> but with Fedora running that, maybe it shouldn't be?

But it triggers only on CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC builds, doesn't it?
I hope Fedora doesn't go out with that enabled.

Hugh
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