Re: Folio Related Stability Crashes in 6.17.5 and 6.17.6

From: Robert Dinse

Date: Thu Nov 06 2025 - 03:24:37 EST



I am installing 6.17.7 presently, I was a little resident to install the current tree on a critical machine. If need be I will. Also, I do have a crash dump on the last failure if that would be of any help.

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On Thu, 6 Nov 2025, Michal Hocko wrote:

Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 09:09:56 +0100
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
To: Robert Dinse <nanook@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Folio Related Stability Crashes in 6.17.5 and 6.17.6

On Wed 05-11-25 19:19:17, Robert Dinse wrote:
      Since 6.17.5 I have twice had one of my servers lock up in a state
where it still routed network traffic and responded to pings but no user
programs are running.

Can you reproduce with the current Linus tree?
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs