linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also on PowerPC and ARM)

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Date:	Wed, 17 Feb 2016 17:04:56 +0200
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:	Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Sebastian Ott <sebott@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] random kernel crashes after THP rework on s390 (maybe also
 on PowerPC and ARM)

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 05:24:44PM +0100, Gerald Schaefer wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 23:35:26 +0200
> "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name> wrote:
> 
> > Is there any chance that I'll be able to trigger the bug using QEMU?
> > Does anybody have an QEMU image I can use?
> > 
> 
> I have no image, but trying to reproduce this under virtualization may
> help to trigger this also on other architectures. After ruling out IPI
> vs. fast_gup I do not really see why this should be arch-specific, and
> it wouldn't be the first time that we hit subtle races first on s390, due
> to our virtualized environment (my test case is make -j20 with 10 CPUs and
> 4GB of memory, no swap).

Could you post your kernel config?

It would be nice also to check if disabling split_huge_page() would make
any difference:

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index a75081ca31cf..26d2b7b21021 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -3364,6 +3364,8 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list)
 	bool mlocked;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
+	return -EBUSY;
+
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(is_huge_zero_page(page), page);
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageAnon(page), page);
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov