linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] kernel BUG at mm/vmacache.c:85!

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Message-ID: <20140429000031.GA4284@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:00:31 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	davidlohr@...com, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] kernel BUG at mm/vmacache.c:85!

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:48:14AM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I hit this during boot on v3.15-rc3, just once so far.
 > Subsequent reboots went fine, and a few quick runs of multi-
 > threaded ebizzy also didn't recreate the problem.
 > 
 > The kernel I was running was v3.15-rc3 + some totally
 > unrelated cpufreq patches.

Could you post those patches somewhere ?
They may not be directly related to the code in the trace, but if
they are randomly corrupting memory, maybe that would explain things ?

	Dave

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