oeeae Ryota OZAKI:
> Hi Izik,
>
> I've tried your patch set, but ksm doesn't work in my machine.
>
> I compiled linux patched with the four patches and configured with KSM
> and KVM enabled. After boot with the linux, I run two VMs running linux
> using QEMU with a patch in your mail and started KSM scanner with your
> script, then the host linux caused panic with the following oops.
>   

Yes you are right, we are missing pte_unmap(pte); in get_pte()!
that will effect just 32bits with highmem so this why you see it
thanks for the reporting, i will fix it for v3

below patch should fix it (i cant test it now, will test it for v3)

can you report if it fix your problem? thanks
>
> == BEGINNING of OOPS
> kernel BUG at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:87!
> invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
> last sysfs file: /sys/class/net/vnet-ssh2/address
> Dumping ftrace buffer:
>    (ftrace buffer empty)
> Modules linked in: netconsole autofs4 nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4
> xt_state nf_conntrack xt_tcpudp ipt_REJECT iptable_filter ip_tables
> x_tables loop kvm_intel kvm iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support igb
> netxen_nic button ext3 jbd mbcache uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore
> [last unloaded: microcode]
>
> Pid: 343, comm: kksmd Not tainted
> (2.6.28-rc5-linus-head-20081119-sparsemem #1) X7DWA
> EIP: 0060:[<c041eff9>] EFLAGS: 00010206 CPU: 6
> EIP is at kmap_atomic_prot+0x7d/0xeb
> EAX: c0008d94 EBX: c1ff6240 ECX: 00000163 EDX: 7e000000
> ESI: 00000154 EDI: 00000055 EBP: f5cdbf10 ESP: f5cdbef8
>  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
> Process kksmd (pid: 343, ti=f5cda000 task=f617b140 task.ti=f5cda000)
> Stack:
>  7fa12163 fffff000 c204efbc f50479e8 9eb7e000 c08a34d0 f5cdbf18 c041f07a
>  f5cdbf28 c048339c 00000000 f5c271e0 f5cdbf30 c04833bc f5cdbfb0 c0483b0d
>  f5cdbf50 c0425845 00000000 00000064 00000009 c08a34d0 f5cdbfb0 c06384c1
> Call Trace:
>  [<c041f07a>] ? kmap_atomic+0x13/0x15
>  [<c048339c>] ? get_pte+0x50/0x63
>  [<c04833bc>] ? is_present_pte+0xd/0x1f
>  [<c0483b0d>] ? ksm_scan_start+0x9a/0x7ac
>  [<c0425845>] ? finish_task_switch+0x29/0xa4
>  [<c06384c1>] ? schedule+0x6bf/0x719
>  [<c041b3fc>] ? default_spin_lock_flags+0x8/0xc
>  [<c043bffa>] ? finish_wait+0x49/0x4e
>  [<c04845f4>] ? kthread_ksm_scan_thread+0x0/0xdc
>  [<c048462e>] ? kthread_ksm_scan_thread+0x3a/0xdc
>  [<c043bf31>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x38
>  [<c043be3e>] ? kthread+0x40/0x66
>  [<c043bdfe>] ? kthread+0x0/0x66
>  [<c0404997>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
> Code: 86 00 00 00 64 a1 04 a0 82 c0 6b c0 0d 8d 3c 30 a1 78 b0 77 c0
> 8d 34 bd 00 00 00 00 89 45 ec a1 0c d0 84 c0 29 f0 83 38 00 74 04 <0f>
> 0b eb fe c1 ea 1a 8b 04 d5 80 32 8a c0 83 e0 fc 29 c3 c1 fb
> EIP: [<c041eff9>] kmap_atomic_prot+0x7d/0xeb SS:ESP 0068:f5cdbef8
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
> == END of OOPS
>