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Date:	Tue, 5 Apr 2011 08:37:32 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Robert Święcki <robert@...ecki.net>
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix possible cause of a page_mapped BUG

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Robert Święcki <robert@...ecki.net> wrote:
>
> Here it is, I'll leave it in this state (kdb) in case you need some
> remote debugging
>
> <4>[ 1523.877666] WARNING: at mm/prio_tree.c:95 vma_prio_tree_add+0x43/0x110()
> <4>[ 1523.978650] vm_area_struct at ffff880120bda508:
> <4>[ 1523.983199]  ffff88011eb5aa00 00000000f72f3000 00000000f73f0000 ffff88011b8eaa10
> <4>[ 1523.990674]  ffff88011b8ea228 0000000000000027 00000000000101ff ffff88011b8ea6b1
> <4>[ 1523.998151]  ffff88011e390820 ffff88011b8ea260 ffff880120796780 ffff880120bdad40
> <4>[ 1524.005624]            (null)           (null) ffff88011ed5b910 ffff88011ed5b1f0
> <4>[ 1524.013103]  ffff88011f72b168 ffffffff82427480 ffffffffffffff03 ffff8800793ff0c0
> <4>[ 1524.020581]            (null)           (null)           (null)

vma->vm_start/end is 0xf72f3000-0xf73f0000

> <4>[ 1524.026556] vm_area_struct at ffff880120bdacf0:
> <4>[ 1524.031110]  ffff88011eb5a300 00000000f72f3000 00000000f7400000 ffff88011f6c6f18
> <4>[ 1524.038584]  ffff88011b5c9da8 0000000000000027 00000000000101ff ffff8801206f0c71
> <4>[ 1524.046062]  ffff88011f6c6f50 ffff88011b5c9de0 ffff880120bdad40 ffff880120bdad40
> <4>[ 1524.053536]  ffff880120bda558           (null) ffff88011f758ee0 ffff88011f7583a0
> <4>[ 1524.061016]  ffff88011f556690 ffffffff82427480 ffffffffffffff03 ffff8800793ff0c0
> <4>[ 1524.068491]            (null)           (null)           (null)

vma->vm_start/end is 0xf72f3000-0xf7400000.

If I read those right, then the vm_pgoff (RADIX_INDEX for the
prio-tree) is ffffffffffffff03 for both cases. That doesn't look good.
How do we get a negative pg_off for a file mapping?

Also, since they have a different size, they should have a different
HEAP_INDEX. That's why we BUG_ON() - with a different HEAP_INDEX,
shouldn't that mean that the prio_tree_insert() logic should create a
new node for it?

I dunno. But that odd negative pg_off thing makes me think there is
some overflow issue (ie HEAP_INDEX being pg_off + size ends up
fluctuating between really big and really small). So I'd suspect THAT
as the main reason.

But maybe I'm mis-reading the dump, and the ffffffffffffff03 isn't
vm_pgoff at all.

Hugh?

                              Linus
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