linux-kernel - Re: [Bug] Reproducible data corruption on i5-3340M: Please revert 53a59fc67!

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Date:	Thu, 15 Aug 2013 16:53:32 +0200
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ben Tebulin <tebulin@...glemail.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug] Reproducible data corruption on i5-3340M: Please revert
 53a59fc67!

On Thu 15-08-13 16:46:00, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 15-08-13 15:40:31, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Thu 15-08-13 05:02:31, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Ben Tebulin <tebulin@...glemail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I just cherry-picked e6c495a96ce0 into 3.9.11 and 3.7.10.
> > > > Unfortunately this does _not resolve_ my issue (too good to be true) :-(
> > > 
> > > Ho humm. I've found at least one other bug, but that one only affects
> > > hugepages. Do you perhaps have transparent hugepages enabled? But even
> > > then it looks quite unlikely.
> > 
> > __unmap_hugepage_range is hugetlb not THP if you had that one in mind.
> > And yes, it doesn't set the range which sounds buggy.
> 
> Or, did you mean tlb_remove_page called from zap_huge_pmd? That one
> should be safe as tlb_remove_pmd_tlb_entry sets need_flush and that
> means that the full range is flushed.

Dohh... But we need need_flush_all and that is not set here. So this
really looks buggy.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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