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SubjectRe: kswapd craziness in 3.7
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 01:28:54PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> [ Adding High Dickins because of the shmem oops. ]
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Zlatko Calusic
> <zlatko.calusic@iskon.hr> wrote:
> >
> > And funny thing that you mention i915, because yesterday my daughter managed to lock up our laptop hard (that was a first), and this is what I found in kern.log after restart:
> >
> > Dec 9 21:29:42 titan vmunix: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> > Dec 9 21:29:42 titan vmunix: Modules linked in: vboxpci(O) vboxnetadp(O) vboxnetflt(O) vboxdrv(O) [last unloaded: microcode]
> > Dec 9 21:29:42 titan vmunix: CPU 2
> > Dec 9 21:29:42 titan vmunix: Pid: 2523, comm: Xorg Tainted: G O 3.7.0-rc8 #1 Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC/144B
> > Dec 9 21:29:42 titan vmunix: RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81090b9c>] [<ffffffff81090b9c>] find_get_page+0x3c/0x90
>
> Ho humm..
>
> I'm not convinced this is related.
>
> > Dec 9 21:29:42 titan vmunix: Call Trace:
> > Dec 9 21:29:42 titan vmunix: [<ffffffff81090e21>] find_lock_page+0x21/0x80
> > Dec 9 21:29:42 titan vmunix: [<ffffffff810a1b60>] shmem_getpage_gfp+0xa0/0x620
> > Dec 9 21:29:42 titan vmunix: [<ffffffff810a224c>] shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp+0x2c/0x50
> > Dec 9 21:29:42 titan vmunix: [<ffffffff812b3611>] i915_gem_object_get_pages_gtt+0xe1/0x270
> > Dec 9 21:29:42 titan vmunix: [<ffffffff812b127f>] i915_gem_object_get_pages+0x4f/0x90
> > Dec 9 21:29:42 titan vmunix: [<ffffffff812b1383>] i915_gem_object_bind_to_gtt+0xc3/0x4c0
> > Dec 9 21:29:42 titan vmunix: [<ffffffff812b4413>] i915_gem_object_pin+0x123/0x190
> > Dec 9 21:29:42 titan vmunix: [<ffffffff812b7d97>] i915_gem_execbuffer_reserve_object.isra.13+0x77/0x190
> > Dec 9 21:29:42 titan vmunix: [<ffffffff812b8171>] i915_gem_execbuffer_reserve.isra.14+0x2c1/0x320
> > Dec 9 21:29:42 titan vmunix: [<ffffffff812b87b2>] i915_gem_do_execbuffer.isra.17+0x5e2/0x11b0
> > Dec 9 21:29:42 titan vmunix: [<ffffffff812b9894>] i915_gem_execbuffer2+0x94/0x280
> > Dec 9 21:29:42 titan vmunix: [<ffffffff81287de3>] drm_ioctl+0x493/0x530
> > Dec 9 21:29:42 titan vmunix: [<ffffffff810d9cbf>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x8f/0x530
> > Dec 9 21:29:42 titan vmunix: [<ffffffff810da1ab>] sys_ioctl+0x4b/0x90
> > Dec 9 21:29:42 titan vmunix: [<ffffffff8154a4d2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> >
> > It seems that whenever (if ever?) GFP_NO_KSWAPD removal is attempted again, the i915 driver will need to be taken better care of.
>
> That decodes to
>
> 11: e8 89 b7 15 00 callq 0x15b79f # radix_tree_lookup_slot
> 16: 48 85 c0 test %rax,%rax
> 19: 48 89 c6 mov %rax,%rsi
> 1c: 74 41 je 0x5f
> 1e: 48 8b 18 mov (%rax),%rbx #
> 21: 48 85 db test %rbx,%rbx
> 24: 74 1f je 0x45
> 26: f6 c3 03 test $0x3,%bl
> 29: 75 3c jne 0x67
> 2b:* 8b 53 1c mov 0x1c(%rbx),%edx <-- trapping instruction
> 2e: 85 d2 test %edx,%edx
> 30: 74 d9 je 0xb
>
> where %rbx is 0x0200000000000000. That looks like it could be a
> single-bit error, and should have been zero.
>
> It's the "atomic_read(&page->counter)" which is part of
> "page_cache_get_speculative()" as far as I can tell, and it's the
> "page" pointer that is that odd (non-pointer) value. The fact that
> %ecx contains the value "-6" makes me wonder if there was a -ENXIO
> somewhere, though.
>
> None of it looks all that much related to whether the i915 driver uses
> GFP_NO_KSWAPD or not, though.

Aren't we gonna consider the out-of-tree vbox modules being loaded and
causing some corruptions like maybe the single-bit error above?

I'm also thinking of this here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/6/317

Hmm.

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