Re: BUG: non-zero nr_pmds on freeing mm: 1

["Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 08:33:02AM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 6:12 AM, Pat Erley <pat-lkml@erley.org> wrote:
> > I'm seeing the message in $subject on my Xen DOM0 on next-20150204 on
> > x86_64.  I haven't had time to bisect it, but have seen some discussion on
> > similar topics here recently.  I can trigger this pretty reliably by
> > watching Netflix.  At some point (minutes to hours) into it, the netflix
> > video goes black (audio keeps going, so it still thinks it's working) and
> > the error appears in dmesg.  Refreshing the page gets the video going again,
> > and it will continue playing for some indeterminate amount of time.
> >
> > Kirill, I've CC'd you as looking in the logs, you've patched a false
> > positive trigger of this very recently(patch in kernel I'm running).  Am I
> > actually hitting a problem, or is this another false positive case? Any
> > additional details that might help?
> >
> > Dmesg from system attached.
> 
> [ CC some mm folks ]
> 
> I have seen this, too.
> 
> root# grep "BUG: non-zero nr_pmds on freeing mm:" /var/log/kern.log | wc -l
> 21
> 
> Checking my logs: On next-20150203 and next-20150204.
> 
> I am here not in a VM environment and cannot say what causes these messages.

Sorry, my fault.

The patch below should fix that.