Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Jan 2014 15:56:00 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm/mlock: fix BUG_ON unlocked page for nolinear VMAs |
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On Sat, 04 Jan 2014 00:36:18 +0100 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:
> On 01/03/2014 09:52 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> wrote: > >> > >> Ping? This BUG() is triggerable in 3.13-rc6 right now. > > > > So Andrew suggested just removing the BUG_ON(), but it's been there > > for a *long* time. > > Yes, Andrew also merged this patch for that: > http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-remove-bug_on-from-mlock_vma_page.patch > > But there wasn't enough confidence in the fix to sent it to you yet, I guess. > > The related thread: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg66972.html
Yes, I'd taken the cowardly approach of scheduling it for 3.14, with a 3.13.x backport.
Nobody answered my question! Is this a new bug or is it a five-year-old bug which we only just discovered?
I guess it doesn't matter much - we should fix it in 3.13. I'll include it in the next for-3.13 batch.
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