linux-kernel - Re: mmotm 2010-10-20-15-01 uploaded

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Date:	Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:17:26 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmotm 2010-10-20-15-01 uploaded

On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 20:46 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:82 __kunmap_atomic+0x80/0xd4()
> 
>                 WARN_ON_ONCE(idx !=
>                         ((vaddr - __fix_to_virt(FIX_KMAP_BEGIN)) >> PAGE_SHIFT));
> 
> > Hardware name: ASPIRE AG1720
> > Modules linked in:
> > Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.36-rc8-mm1+ #1
> > Call Trace:
> >  [<c0440982>] warn_slowpath_common+0x6a/0x7f
> >  [<c042e6c5>] ? __kunmap_atomic+0x80/0xd4
> >  [<c04409ab>] warn_slowpath_null+0x14/0x18
> >  [<c042e6c5>] __kunmap_atomic+0x80/0xd4
> >  [<c04f2d1f>] zero_user_segments+0x5e/0x64
> >  [<c04f2e58>] simple_write_begin+0x5e/0x6c
> >  [<c04a6518>] generic_file_buffered_write+0xc0/0x1c5

<snip>

> It would have been clearer to do
> 
>         WARN_ON_ONCE(vaddr != __fix_to_virt(FIX_KMAP_BEGIN + idx))
> 
> but I don't see what's gone wrong here.  Peter?

Right, so that's the warning that the unmapped address isn't actually
the top-of-stack one.

Your version is much nicer, although I haven't looked too hard at it, I
probably got my head in a twist.

But like you, I cannot directly see what's going wrong here,
zero_user_segments() seems a simple enough function without any
kmap_atomic nesting, so I'm not at all seeing how that's going wrong.

/me goes find where you hide your mmotm patch-queue and stare at the
actual code.

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