linux-kernel - Re: WARNING: at mm/mremap.c:211 move_page

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Date:   Sat, 11 Jul 2020 22:57:38 +0530
From:   Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Cc:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        William Kucharski <william.kucharski@...cle.com>,
        linux- stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, Chris Down <chris@...isdown.name>,
        Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
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        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: WARNING: at mm/mremap.c:211 move_page_tables in i386

On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 at 01:35, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 10:48 AM Naresh Kamboju
> <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org> wrote:

I have started bisecting this problem and found the first bad commit

commit 9f132f7e145506efc0744426cb338b18a54afc3b
Author: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Date:   Thu Jan 3 15:28:41 2019 -0800

    mm: select HAVE_MOVE_PMD on x86 for faster mremap

    Moving page-tables at the PMD-level on x86 is known to be safe.  Enable
    this option so that we can do fast mremap when possible.

    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181108181201.88826-4-joelaf@google.com
    Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
    Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@...temov.name>
    Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@...temov.name>
    Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
    Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@...cle.com>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index e260460210e1..6185d4f33296 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ config X86
  select HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
  select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
  select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
+ select HAVE_MOVE_PMD
  select HAVE_NMI
  select HAVE_OPROFILE
  select HAVE_OPTPROBES


After reverting the above patch the reported kernel warning got fixed on
Linus mainline tree 5.8.0-rc4.

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