Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetl.c: keep the page mapping info when free_huge_page() hit the VM_BUG_ON_PAGE

[Michal Hocko]

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On Tue 13-11-18 23:12:24, Yongkai Wu wrote:
> Dear Maintainer,
> Actually i met a VM_BUG_ON_PAGE issue in centos7.4 some days ago.When the
> issue first happen,
> i just can know that it happen in free_huge_page() when doing soft offline
> huge page.
> But because page->mapping is set to null,i can not get any further
> information how the issue happen.
> 
> So i modified the code as the patch show,and apply the new code to our
> produce line and wait some time,
> then the issue come again.And this time i can know the whole file path
> which trigger the issue by using
> crash tool to get the inodeãdentry and so on,that help me to find a way to
> reproduce the issue quite easily
> and finally found the root cause and solve it.

OK, thanks for the clarification. Please repost without
the patch being clobbered by your email client and feel free to add
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

A note about your experience in the changelog would be useful IMHO.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs