linux-kernel - [Update] Regression in 4.18 - 32-bit PowerPC crashes on boot

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Date:   Fri, 29 Jun 2018 15:42:12 -0500
From:   Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [Update] Regression in 4.18 - 32-bit PowerPC crashes on boot -
 bisected to commit 1d40a5ea01d5

My PowerBook G4 Aluminum crashes on boot with 4.18-rcX kernels with a kernel BUG 
at include/linux/page-flags.h:700! The problem was bisected to commit 
1d40a5ea01d5 ("mm: mark pages in use for page tables"). It is not possible to 
capture the bug with anything other than a camera. The first few lines of the 
traceback are as follows:

free_pgd_range+0x19c/0x30c (unreliable)
free_pgtables_0xa0/0xb0
exit_pmap+0xf4/0x16c
mmput+0x64/0xf0
do_exit+0x33c/0x89c
oops_end+0x13c/0x144
_exception_pkey+0x58/0x128
ret_from_except_full+0x0/0x4
--- interrupt: 700 at free_pgd_range+0x19c/0x30c
     LR = free_pgd_range+0x19c/0x30c
free_pgtables+0xa/0xb
exit_mnap+0xf4/0x16c
mmput+0x64/0xf0
flush_old_exec+0x490/0x550

I have more information regarding this BUG. Line 700 of page-flags.h is the 
macro PAGE_TYPE_OPS(Table, table). For further debugging, I manually expanded 
the macro, and found that the bug line is VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageTable(page), page) 
in routine __ClearPageTable(), which is called from pgtable_page_dtor() in 
include/linux/mm.h. I also added a printk call to PageTable() that logs 
page->page_type. The routine was called twice. The first had page_type of 
0xfffffbff, which would have been expected for a . The second call had 
0xffffffff, which led to the BUG.

Larry