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Message-ID: <CAJd=RBD0mjdUZA82UDv134w=TvNtgRNGXWON8CnG0FPexj7vXQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:01:57 +0800
From:	Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>
To:	Zhouping Liu <zliu@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>, mgorman@...e.de,
	hughd@...gle.com, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	"devendra.aaru" <devendra.aaru@...il.com>,
	Jongman Heo <jongman.heo@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000500

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Zhouping Liu <zliu@...hat.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> The latest mainline(637704cbc95c) would trigger the following error when the system was under
> some pressure condition(in my testing, I used oom01 case inside LTP test suite to trigger the issue):
>
> [ 5462.920151] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000500
> [ 5462.927991] IP: [<ffffffff811542d9>] wait_iff_congested+0x59/0x140
> [ 5462.934176] PGD 0
> [ 5462.936191] Oops: 0000 [#2] SMP
> [ 5462.939428] Modules linked in: lockd sunrpc iptable_mangle ipt_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_conntrack nf_conntrack ebtable_filter ebtables ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter ip_tabled
> [ 5462.984261] CPU 13
> [ 5462.986184] Pid: 117, comm: kswapd3 Tainted: G      D      3.8.0-rc1+ #1 Dell Inc. PowerEdge M905/0D413F
> [ 5462.995814] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811542d9>]  [<ffffffff811542d9>] wait_iff_congested+0x59/0x140
> [ 5463.004411] RSP: 0018:ffff88007c97fd48  EFLAGS: 00010202
> [ 5463.009701] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000064 RCX: 0000000000000001
> [ 5463.016818] RDX: 0000000000000064 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
> [ 5463.023926] RBP: ffff88007c97fd98 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88022ffd9d80
> [ 5463.031033] R10: 0000000000003189 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000001004ee87e
> [ 5463.038140] R13: 0000000000000002 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88022ffd9000
> [ 5463.045258] FS:  00007f3e570de740(0000) GS:ffff88022fcc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [ 5463.053317] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> [ 5463.059041] CR2: 0000000000000500 CR3: 00000000018dc000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
> [ 5463.066157] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> [ 5463.073276] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> [ 5463.080400] Process kswapd3 (pid: 117, threadinfo ffff88007c97e000, task ffff88007c981970)
> [ 5463.088633] Stack:
> [ 5463.090646]  ffff88007c97fd98 0000000000000000 ffff88007c981970 ffffffff81086080
> [ 5463.098090]  ffff88007c97fd68 ffff88007c97fd68 ffff88022ffd9d80 0000000000000002
> [ 5463.105527]  0000000000000002 0000000000000000 ffff88007c97feb8 ffffffff8114b0e3
> [ 5463.112998] Call Trace:
> [ 5463.115446]  [<ffffffff81086080>] ? wake_up_bit+0x40/0x40
> [ 5463.120826]  [<ffffffff8114b0e3>] kswapd+0x6c3/0xa50
> [ 5463.125775]  [<ffffffff8114aa20>] ? zone_reclaim+0x270/0x270
> [ 5463.131415]  [<ffffffff81085680>] kthread+0xc0/0xd0
> [ 5463.136278]  [<ffffffff810855c0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x120/0x120
> [ 5463.142786]  [<ffffffff8160a0ac>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
> [ 5463.148166]  [<ffffffff810855c0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x120/0x120
> [ 5463.154668] Code: 4e 6d 88 00 48 c7 45 b8 00 00 00 00 48 83 c0 18 48 c7 45 c8 80 60 08 81 48 89 45 d0 48 89 45 d8 8b 04 b5 a0 9a cd 81 85 c0 74 0f <48> 8b 87 00 05 00 00 a8 04 0f 85 98 00 00 00 e8 b3 c3
> [ 5463.174097] RIP  [<ffffffff811542d9>] wait_iff_congested+0x59/0x140
> [ 5463.180352]  RSP <ffff88007c97fd48>
> [ 5463.183824] CR2: 0000000000000500
> [ 5463.203717] ---[ end trace 9ff4ff9087c13a36 ]---
>
> I attached the config file, hope it can make some help.

Hey Zhouping,

Can you please run with the following commit reverted?

Hillf

   commit cda73a10eb3f
   mm: do not sleep in balance_pgdat if there's no i/o congestion
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