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Date:	Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:12:01 +0200
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: slab shrinkers: BUG at mm/list_lru.c:92

On Thu 20-06-13 18:11:38, Glauber Costa wrote:
[...]
> > [84091.219056] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > [84091.220015] kernel BUG at mm/list_lru.c:42!
> > [84091.220015] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP 
> > [84091.220015] Modules linked in: edd nfsv3 nfs_acl nfs fscache lockd sunrpc af_packet bridge stp llc cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave fuse loop dm_mod powernow_k8 tg3 kvm_amd kvm ptp e1000 pps_core shpchp edac_core i2c_amd756 amd_rng pci_hotplug k8temp sg i2c_amd8111 edac_mce_amd serio_raw sr_mod pcspkr cdrom button ohci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore usb_common processor thermal_sys scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh ata_generic sata_sil pata_amd
> > [84091.220015] CPU 1 
> > [84091.220015] Pid: 32545, comm: rm Not tainted 3.9.0mmotmdebugging1+ #1472 AMD A8440/WARTHOG
> > [84091.220015] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81127fff>]  [<ffffffff81127fff>] list_lru_del+0xcf/0xe0
> > [84091.220015] RSP: 0018:ffff88001de85df8  EFLAGS: 00010286
> > [84091.220015] RAX: ffffffffffffffff RBX: ffff88001e1ce2c0 RCX: 0000000000000002
> > [84091.220015] RDX: ffff88001e1ce2c8 RSI: ffff8800087f4220 RDI: ffff88001e1ce2c0
> > [84091.220015] RBP: ffff88001de85e18 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
> > [84091.220015] R10: ffff88001d539128 R11: ffff880018234882 R12: ffff8800087f4220
> > [84091.220015] R13: ffff88001c68bc40 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88001de85ea8
> > [84091.220015] FS:  00007f43adb30700(0000) GS:ffff88001f100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> > [84091.220015] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> > [84091.220015] CR2: 0000000001ffed30 CR3: 000000001e02e000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
> > [84091.220015] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> > [84091.220015] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> > [84091.220015] Process rm (pid: 32545, threadinfo ffff88001de84000, task ffff88001c22e5c0)
> > [84091.220015] Stack:
> > [84091.220015]  ffff8800087f4130 ffff8800087f41b8 ffff88001c68b800 0000000000000000
> > [84091.220015]  ffff88001de85e48 ffffffff81184357 ffff88001de85e48 ffff8800087f4130
> > [84091.220015]  ffff88001e005000 ffff880014e4eb40 ffff88001de85e68 ffffffff81184418
> > [84091.220015] Call Trace:
> > [84091.220015]  [<ffffffff81184357>] iput_final+0x117/0x190
> > [84091.220015]  [<ffffffff81184418>] iput+0x48/0x60
> > [84091.220015]  [<ffffffff8117a804>] do_unlinkat+0x214/0x240
> > [84091.220015]  [<ffffffff8117aa4d>] sys_unlinkat+0x1d/0x40
> > [84091.220015]  [<ffffffff81583129>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> > [84091.220015] Code: 5c 41 5d b8 01 00 00 00 41 5e c9 c3 49 8d 45 08 f0 45 0f b3 75 08 eb db 0f 1f 40 00 66 83 03 01 5b 41 5c 41 5d 31 c0 41 5e c9 c3 <0f> 0b eb fe 66 66 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 ba 00 00 
> > [84091.220015] RIP  [<ffffffff81127fff>] list_lru_del+0xcf/0xe0
> > [84091.220015]  RSP <ffff88001de85df8>
> > [84091.470390] ---[ end trace e6915e8ee0f5f079 ]---
> > 
> > Which is BUG_ON(nlru->nr_items < 0) from iput_final path. So it seems
> > that there is still a race there.
> 
> I am still looking at this - still can't reproduce, still don't know what is going
> on.

I am bisecting it again. It is quite tedious, though, because good case
is hard to be sure about.

> Could you share with me your .config and your hardware info and
> dmesg? In particular, I want to know how many nodes do you have.

Well, the machine has 4 nodes but only 2 of them are initialized because
I am booting with mem=1G to make a bigger memory pressure. dmesg and
zoneinfo is attached as well as the config.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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