Re: mm: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTail(page)) in mbind

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:49:16PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 22:28:29 +0200 "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Let's mark the VMA as VM_IO to indicate to mm core that the VMA is
> > migratable.
> > 
> > ...
> >
> > --- a/drivers/scsi/sg.c
> > +++ b/drivers/scsi/sg.c
> > @@ -1261,7 +1261,7 @@ sg_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	sfp->mmap_called = 1;
> > -	vma->vm_flags |= VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP;
> > +	vma->vm_flags |= VM_IO | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP;
> >  	vma->vm_private_data = sfp;
> >  	vma->vm_ops = &sg_mmap_vm_ops;
> >  	return 0;
> 
> I'll put cc:stable on this - I don't think we recently did anything to make
> this happen?

The VM_BUG_ON is new bb5b8589767a ("mm: make sure isolate_lru_page() is
never called for tail page"), but I don't think it changes the picture
much.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov