On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 06:02:06PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:09:41 +0000 Mel Gorman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On (13/12/07 14:29), Andrew Morton didst pronounce:
> > > > The simple way seems to be to malloc a large area, touch every page and
> > > > then look at the physical pages assigned ... they now mostly seem to be
> > > > descending in physical address.
> > > >
> > >
> > > OIC. -mm's /proc/pid/pagemap can be used to get the pfn's...
> > >
> >
> > I tried using pagemap to verify the patch but it triggered BUG_ON
> > checks. Perhaps I am using the interface wrong but I would still not
> > expect it to break in this fashion. I tried 2.6.24-rc4-mm1, 2.6.24-rc5-mm1,
> > 2.6.24-rc5 with just the maps4 patches applied and 2.6.23 with maps4 patches
> > applied. Each time I get errors like this;
> >
> > [ 90.108315] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/asm/uaccess_32.h:457
> > [ 90.211227] in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
> > [ 90.262251] no locks held by showcontiguous/2814.
> > [ 90.318475] Pid: 2814, comm: showcontiguous Not tainted 2.6.24-rc5 #1
> > [ 90.395344] [<c010522a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
> > [ 90.456948] [<c0105bb2>] show_trace+0x12/0x20
> > [ 90.510173] [<c0105eee>] dump_stack+0x6e/0x80
> > [ 90.563409] [<c01205b3>] __might_sleep+0xc3/0xe0
> > [ 90.619765] [<c02264fd>] copy_to_user+0x3d/0x60
> > [ 90.675153] [<c01b3e9c>] add_to_pagemap+0x5c/0x80
> > [ 90.732513] [<c01b43e8>] pagemap_pte_range+0x68/0xb0
> > [ 90.793010] [<c0175ed2>] walk_page_range+0x112/0x210
> > [ 90.853482] [<c01b47c6>] pagemap_read+0x176/0x220
> > [ 90.910863] [<c0182dc4>] vfs_read+0x94/0x150
> > [ 90.963058] [<c01832fd>] sys_read+0x3d/0x70
> > [ 91.014219] [<c0104262>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Just using cp to read the file is enough to cause problems but I included
> > a very basic program below that produces the BUG_ON checks. Is this a known
> > issue or am I using the interface incorrectly?
>
> I'd say you're using it correctly but you've found a hitherto unknown bug.
> On i386 highmem machines with CONFIG_HIGHPTE (at least) pte_offset_map()
> takes kmap_atomic(), so pagemap_pte_range() can't do copy_to_user() as it
> presently does.
Damn, I coulda sworn I fixed that.
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