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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mm: slub: gpf in deactivate_slab
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:51:59 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1403251150330.16870@nuc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5331A6C3.2000303@oracle.com>

On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, Sasha Levin wrote:

> I have a lead on this. Consider the following:
>
>   kmem_cache_alloc
> 	__slab_alloc
> 		local_irq_save()
> 		deactivate_slab
> 			__cmpxchg_double_slab
> 				slab_unlock
> 					__bit_spin_unlock
> 						preempt_enable
> 		[ Page Fault ]
>
> With this trace, it manifests as a "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid
> context at arch/x86/mm/fault.c" on a might_sleep() in the page fault handler
> (which is an issue on it's own), but I suspect it's also the cause of the
> trace
> above - preemption enabled and a race that removed the page.
>
> Could someone confirm please?

The preempt count is incremented earlier in bit_spin_lock so the
preempt_enable() should not do anything.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-25 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-12 16:25 Sasha Levin
2014-03-25 15:54 ` Sasha Levin
2014-03-25 16:51   ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2014-03-25 16:52   ` Michal Hocko
2014-03-25 17:06     ` Christoph Lameter
2014-03-25 17:15       ` Sasha Levin
2014-03-25 18:10         ` Christoph Lameter
2014-03-26  0:17           ` Sasha Levin
2014-03-26 15:43             ` Christoph Lameter
2014-04-05 15:20               ` Sasha Levin
2014-04-07 17:13                 ` Christoph Lameter
2014-04-07 17:16                   ` Sasha Levin
2014-04-07 19:34                 ` Christoph Lameter
2014-03-25 17:56       ` Michal Hocko
2014-03-25 18:01         ` Michal Hocko

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