From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [mm? 4.15-rc7] Random oopses under memory pressure.
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:21:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180111142148.GD1732@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201801112311.EHI90152.FLJMQOStVHFOFO@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
On Thu 11-01-18 23:11:12, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Wed 10-01-18 22:37:52, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > > On Wed 10-01-18 20:49:56, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > > > Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > > > > I can hit this bug with Linux 4.11 and 4.8. (i.e. at least all 4.8+ have this bug.)
> > > > > > So far I haven't hit this bug with Linux 4.8-rc3 and 4.7.
> > > > > > Does anyone know what is happening?
> > > > >
> > > > > I simplified the reproducer and succeeded to reproduce this bug with both
> > > > > i7-2630QM (8 core) and i5-4440S (4 core). Thus, I think that this bug is
> > > > > not architecture specific.
> > > >
> > > > Can you see the same with 64b kernel?
> > >
> > > No. I can hit this bug with only x86_32 kernels.
> > > But if the cause is not specific to 32b, this might be silent memory corruption.
> > >
> > > > It smells like a ref count imbalance and premature page free to me. Can
> > > > you try to bisect this?
> > >
> > > Too difficult to bisect, but at least I can hit this bug with 4.8+ kernels.
>
> The bug in 4.8 kernel might be different from the bug in 4.15-rc7 kernel.
> 4.15-rc7 kernel hits the bug so trivially.
Maybe you want to disable the oom reaper to reduce chances of some issue
there.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-05 14:45 [x86? mm? fs? 4.15-rc6] Random oopses by simple write " Tetsuo Handa
2018-01-09 10:39 ` [mm? 4.15-rc7] " Tetsuo Handa
2018-01-10 11:49 ` [mm? 4.15-rc7] Random oopses " Tetsuo Handa
2018-01-10 12:45 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-10 13:37 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-01-11 13:57 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-11 14:11 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-01-11 14:21 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-01-11 14:37 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-01-12 1:31 ` [mm " Tetsuo Handa
2018-01-12 1:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-12 11:22 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-01-14 11:54 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-01-15 23:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-16 1:15 ` [mm 4.15-rc8] " Tetsuo Handa
2018-01-16 2:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-16 8:06 ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-16 8:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-01-16 19:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-16 17:33 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-01-16 19:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-17 11:08 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-01-17 21:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-17 21:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-17 22:04 ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-17 22:00 ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-17 22:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-18 8:12 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-01-18 12:25 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-01-18 13:12 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-01-18 14:34 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-01-18 14:38 ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-18 14:45 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-01-18 14:51 ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-18 16:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-18 14:45 ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-18 14:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-01-18 16:56 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-01-18 17:26 ` Luck, Tony
2018-01-18 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-18 17:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-18 23:49 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-01-19 12:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-01-19 18:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-19 22:12 ` Al Viro
2018-01-19 22:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-20 2:02 ` Al Viro
2018-01-20 5:24 ` Al Viro
2018-01-20 9:38 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2018-01-18 15:40 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-01-18 17:22 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-19 10:02 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-01-19 10:33 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-19 11:49 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-01-19 12:07 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-19 12:30 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-01-19 2:01 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-01-11 18:11 ` [mm? 4.15-rc7] " Linus Torvalds
2018-01-11 20:59 ` Tetsuo Handa
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