linux-kernel - Re: Folio Related Stability Crashes in 6.17.5 and 6.17.6

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Message-ID: <41d1cb48-7711-690e-c9a2-978e0f96f5d6@eskimo.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 00:24:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Robert Dinse <nanook@...imo.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Folio Related Stability Crashes in 6.17.5 and 6.17.6


      I am installing 6.17.7 presently, I was a little resident to install the 
current tree on a critical machine.  If need be I will.  Also, I do have a 
crash dump on the last failure if that would be of any help.

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On Thu, 6 Nov 2025, Michal Hocko wrote:

> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 09:09:56 +0100
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> To: Robert Dinse <nanook@...imo.com>
> Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Folio Related Stability Crashes in 6.17.5 and 6.17.6
> 
> On Wed 05-11-25 19:19:17, Robert Dinse wrote:
>>       Since 6.17.5 I have twice had one of my servers lock up in a state
>> where it still routed network traffic and responded to pings but no user
>> programs are running.
>
> Can you reproduce with the current Linus tree?
> -- 
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
>