linux-kernel - Re: BUG: Bad page map in process python2 pte:10000000000 pmd:17e8be067

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Message-ID: <17463682-dc08-358d-8b44-02821352604c@intel.com>
Date:   Thu, 19 Apr 2018 11:53:51 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        lkp@...org
Subject: Re: BUG: Bad page map in process python2 pte:10000000000
 pmd:17e8be067

On 04/18/2018 10:40 PM, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> [  716.494065] PASS concurrent_autogo_5ghz_ht40 4.803608 2018-03-23 09:57:21.586794
> [  716.494069]
> [  716.496923] passed all 1 test case(s)
> [  716.496926]
> [  716.511702] swap_info_get: Bad swap file entry 04000000
> [  716.512731] BUG: Bad page map in process python2  pte:100_0000_0000 pmd:17e8be067
> [  716.513844] addr:00000000860ba23b vm_flags:00000070 anon_vma:          (null) mapping:000000004c76fece index:1e2
> [  716.515160] file:libpcre.so.3.13.3 fault:filemap_fault mmap:generic_file_mmap readpage:simple_readpage
> [  716.516418] CPU: 2 PID: 8907 Comm: python2 Not tainted 4.16.0-rc5 #1
> [  716.517533] Hardware name:  /DH67GD, BIOS BLH6710H.86A.0132.2011.1007.1505 10/07/2011

Did you say that you have a few more examples of this?

I would be really interested if it's always python or always the same
shared library, or always file-backed memory, always the same bit,
etc...  From the vm_flags, I'd guess that this is the "rw-p" part of the
file mapping.

The bit that gets set is really weird.  It's bit 40.  I could definitely
see scenarios where we might set the dirty bit, or even NX for that
matter, or some *bit* that we mess with in software.  It's not even
close to the boundary where it could represent a swapoffset=1 or swapfile=1.

It's also unlikely to be _PAGE_PSE having gone missing from the PMD
since it's in the middle of a file-backed mapping and the PMD is
obviously pointing to a 4k page.

If I had to put money on it, I'd guess it's a hardware bit flip, or less
likely, a rogue software bit flip.  But, more examples will hopefully
shed some more light.