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From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mm: swap: locking in release_pages()
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 13:36:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dc5eb22d-5389-bacb-3756-253e774a8394@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YkwdRnuQBjoJ01YK@dhcp22.suse.cz>

Hello Michal,

thanks for the quick reply!

On 05/04/2022 12:43, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> 1. Crash of v5.4.170 on an ARM32 machine:
>>
>> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000104
>> pgd = e138149d
>> [00000104] *pgd=84d2fd003, *pmd=8ffd6f003
>> Internal error: Oops: a07 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
>> ...
>> CPU: 1 PID: 6172 Comm: AaSysInfoRColle Tainted: G    B      O      5.4.170-... #1
>> Hardware name: Keystone
>> PC is at release_pages+0x194/0x358
>> LR is at release_pages+0x10c/0x358
> Which LOC does this correspond to? (faddr2line should give you a nice
> output).

Sorry, I forgot this info in the initial report:

this is indeed the del_page_from_lru_list() in this crash. So it's either two different ->lru_lock
or some other code path doesn't take lru_lock at all...

-- 
Best regards,
Alexander Sverdlin.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-05 11:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-05 10:20 Alexander Sverdlin
2022-04-05 10:43 ` Michal Hocko
2022-04-05 11:36   ` Alexander Sverdlin [this message]
2022-04-05 11:45     ` Michal Hocko
2022-04-05 14:00       ` Alexander Sverdlin
2022-04-05 14:17         ` Michal Hocko

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