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SubjectRe: mm: kernel BUG at mm/huge_memory.c:2785!
On 03/04/2014 10:16 PM, Bob Liu wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:03 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov
> <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> Sasha Levin wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running latest -next kernel I've stumbled on the
>>> following spew:
>>>
>>> [ 1428.146261] kernel BUG at mm/huge_memory.c:2785!
>>
>> Hm, interesting.
>>
>> It seems we either failed to split huge page on vma split or it
>> materialized from under us. I don't see how it can happen:
>>
>> - it seems we do the right thing with vma_adjust_trans_huge() in
>> __split_vma();
>> - we hold ->mmap_sem all the way from vm_munmap(). At least I don't see
>> a place where we could drop it;
>>
>
> Enable CONFIG_DEBUG_VM may show some useful information, at least we
> can confirm weather rwsem_is_locked(&tlb->mm->mmap_sem) before
> split_huge_page_pmd().

I have CONFIG_DEBUG_VM enabled and that code you're talking is not triggering, so mmap_sem
is locked.


Thanks,
Sasha


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