On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 04:37:35PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Nothing unusual happening, allmodconfig compiling etc.
> > Not sure why it says kernel was tainted though ... hmmm.
> >
> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > kernel BUG at mm/swap_state.c:78!
> > invalid opcode: 0000 [#1]
> > PREEMPT
> > Modules linked in: orinoco_cs orinoco hermes pl2303 usbserial pcmcia 8250_pci 8250 serial_core yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core 8139too
> > CPU: 0
> > EIP: 0060:[<c01504b7>] Tainted: P VLI
> > EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.23-rc2-mm1 #1)
> > EIP is at __add_to_swap_cache+0xc6/0xd7
> > eax: 40000000 ebx: c11285c0 ecx: 000000d0 edx: 00000283
> > esi: c11285c0 edi: 00000283 ebp: c1858f90 esp: c1858f84
> > ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 0000 gs: 0000 ss: 0068
> > Process kprefetchd (pid: 236, ti=c1858000 task=c18d14d0 task.ti=c1858000)
> > Stack: 00000283 c11285c0 c3d5a3c8 c1858fa0 c01504ea c11285c0 00000000 c1858fcc
> > c015307c 00000001 00000007 00000002 00000002 00000283 00000000 fffffffc
> > 00000000 c0152d5c c1858fe0 c0127f2e c0127ef8 00000000 00000000 00000000
> > Call Trace:
> > [<c010456a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
> > [<c0104629>] show_stack_log_lvl+0xa9/0xd5
> > [<c010486e>] show_registers+0x219/0x38d
> > [<c0104ae6>] die+0x104/0x23e
> > [<c0419bd3>] do_trap+0x83/0xad
> > [<c0104edf>] do_invalid_op+0x88/0x92
> > [<c04199b2>] error_code+0x6a/0x70
> > [<c01504ea>] add_to_swap_cache+0x22/0x58
> > [<c015307c>] kprefetchd+0x320/0x364
> > [<c0127f2e>] kthread+0x36/0x58
> > [<c0104233>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x14
> > =======================
> > INFO: lockdep is turned off.
> > Code: 0f 89 7b 0c 83 05 fc c9 53 c0 01 8b 13 c1 ea 1e 8d 04 12 01 d0 c1 e0 03 29 d0 c1 e0 05 ff 80 b8 c0 53 c0 ff 05 34 1d 68 c0 eb 96 <0f> 0b eb fe 0f 0b eb fe 0f 0b eb fe 8b 53 0c eb be 55 89 e5 56
> > EIP: [<c01504b7>] __add_to_swap_cache+0xc6/0xd7 SS:ESP 0068:c1858f84
>
> Don't worry about reproducing untainted, I got the same earlier
> and was just preparing and testing the hotfix: here it is...
>
>
> Nick's mm-clarify-__add_to_swap_cache-locking.patch is fine for mainline,
> but soon generates a "kernel BUG at mm/swap_state.c:78!" when it meets
> mm-implement-swap-prefetching.patch in 2.6.23-rc2-mm1. We could add a
> fix to the latter, but I think it's better to adjust Nick's, so that
> it's right for whichever tree it's in: move the responsibility to
> SetPageLocked from read_swap_cache_async to add_to_swap_cache.
Hmm, yeah I like this better, it is more like add_to_page_cache now.
Thanks.
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