linux-kernel - Re: [v6 04/15] mm: discard memblock data later

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Date:   Fri, 11 Aug 2017 12:22:52 -0400
From:   Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        x86@...nel.org, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, borntraeger@...ibm.com,
        heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        willy@...radead.org, ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org,
        will.deacon@....com, catalin.marinas@....com, sam@...nborg.org,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [v6 04/15] mm: discard memblock data later

>> I will address your comment, and send out a new patch. Should I send it out
>> separately from the series or should I keep it inside?
> 
> I would post it separatelly. It doesn't depend on the rest.

OK, I will post it separately. No it does not depend on the rest, but 
the reset depends on this. So, I am not sure how to enforce that this 
comes before the rest.

> 
>> Also, before I send out a new patch, I will need to root cause and resolve
>> problem found by kernel test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com>, and bisected
>> down to this patch.
>>
>> [  156.659400] BUG: Bad page state in process swapper  pfn:03147
>> [  156.660051] page:ffff88001ed8a1c0 count:0 mapcount:-127 mapping:
>> (null) index:0x1
>> [  156.660917] flags: 0x0()
>> [  156.661198] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000001
>> 00000000ffffff80
>> [  156.662006] raw: ffff88001f4a8120 ffff88001ed85ce0 0000000000000000
>> 0000000000000000
>> [  156.662811] page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
>> [  156.663307] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted
>> 4.13.0-rc3-00220-g1aad694 #1
>> [  156.664077] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
>> 1.9.3-20161025_171302-gandalf 04/01/2014
>> [  156.665129] Call Trace:
>> [  156.665422]  dump_stack+0x1e/0x20
>> [  156.665802]  bad_page+0x122/0x148
> 
> Was the report related with this patch?

Yes, they said that the problem was bisected down to this patch. Do you 
know if there is a way to submit a patch to this test robot?

Thank you,
Pasha