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Subject[BUG] Read-Only THP causes stalls (commit 10359213d)
Hi all,

I noticed a regression on my arm64 APM X-Gene system a couple
of weeks back. I would occassionally see the system lock up and see RCU
stalls during the caching phase of kernbench. I then wrote a small
script that does nothing but cache the files
(http://paste.ubuntu.com/11324767/) and ran that in a loop. On a known
bad commit (v4.1-rc2), out of 25 boots, I never saw it get past 21
iterations of the loop. I have since tried to run a bisect from v3.19 to
v4.0 using 100 iterations as my criteria for a good commit.

This resulted in the following first bad commit:

10359213d05acf804558bda7cc9b8422a828d1cd
(mm: incorporate read-only pages into transparent huge pages, 2015-02-11)

Indeed, running the workload on v4.1-rc4 still produced the behavior,
but reverting the above commit gets me through 100 iterations of the
loop.

I have not tried to reproduce on an x86 system. Turning on a bunch
of kernel debugging features *seems* to hide the problem. My config for
the XGene system is defconfig + CONFIG_BRIDGE and
CONFIG_POWER_RESET_XGENE.

Please let me know if I can help test patches or other things I can
do to help. I'm afraid that by simply reading the patch I didn't see
anything obviously wrong with it which would cause this behavior.

Thanks,
-Christoffer


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