Re: mm, vmstat: kernel BUG at mm/vmstat.c:1408!

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Wed Jan 20 2016 - 10:10:18 EST


On Wed 20-01-16 09:56:26, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On 01/20/2016 09:37 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > I am just reading through this old discussion again because "vmstat:
> > make vmstat_updater deferrable again and shut down on idle" which seems
> > to be the culprit AFAIU has been merged as 0eb77e988032 and I do not see
> > any follow up fix merged to linus tree
>
> So this isn't an "old" discussion - the bug is very much there and I can
> hit it easily. As a workaround I've "disabled" vmstat.

Well the report is since 18th Dec which is over month old. Should we
revert 0eb77e988032 as a pre caution and make sure this is done properly
in -mm tree. AFAIR none of the proposed fix worked without other
fallouts?
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs