Hi.

It seems the current -mm has been gradually stabilized,
but I encounter another bad page problem in my test(*1)
on 2.6.26-rc5-mm3 + patch collection(*2).

Compared to previous probrems fixed by the patch collection,
the frequency is law.

- 1 time in 1 hour running(1'st one was seen after 30 minutes)
- 3 times in 16 hours running(1'st one was seen after 4 hours)
- 10 times in 70 hours running(1'st one was seen after 8 hours)

All bad pages show similar message like below:

---
Bad page state in process 'switch.sh'
page:ffffe2000c8e59c0 flags:0x0200000000080018 mapping:000
0000000000000 mapcount:0 count:0
cgroup:ffff81062a817050
Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
Backtrace:
Pid: 14980, comm: switch.sh Not tainted 2.6.26-rc5-mm3-mem
fix #1
Jun 19 20:10:23 opteron kernel:
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff802747b0>] bad_page+0x97/0x131
 [<ffffffff80275ae6>] free_hot_cold_page+0xd4/0x19c
 [<ffffffff80275bcf>] __pagevec_free+0x21/0x2e
 [<ffffffff80278d51>] release_pages+0x18d/0x19f
 [<ffffffff80278e58>] ____pagevec_lru_add+0xf5/0x106
 [<ffffffff8027a5ea>] putback_lru_page+0x52/0xe9
 [<ffffffff8029baec>] migrate_pages+0x331/0x42a
 [<ffffffff8029070f>] new_node_page+0x0/0x2f
 [<ffffffff802915a9>] do_migrate_pages+0x19b/0x1e7
 [<ffffffff8025c827>] cpuset_migrate_mm+0x58/0x8f
 [<ffffffff8025d0fd>] cpuset_attach+0x8b/0x9e
 [<ffffffff8025a3e1>] cgroup_attach_task+0x3a3/0x3f5
 [<ffffffff8029db71>] __dentry_open+0x154/0x238
 [<ffffffff8025af06>] cgroup_common_file_write+0x150/0x1dd
 [<ffffffff8025aaf4>] cgroup_file_write+0x54/0x150
 [<ffffffff8030a335>] selinux_file_permission+0x56/0x117
 [<ffffffff8029f74d>] vfs_write+0xad/0x136
 [<ffffffff8029fc8a>] sys_write+0x45/0x6e
 [<ffffffff8020bef2>] tracesys+0xd5/0xda
Jun 19 20:10:23 opteron kernel:
Hexdump:
000: 28 00 08 00 00 00 00 02 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a1 f1 08 25 03 81 ff ff
020: 6e 06 90 f5 07 00 00 00 68 59 8e 0c 00 e2 ff ff
030: a8 a5 8c 0c 00 e2 ff ff 00 cf 11 25 03 81 ff ff
040: 18 00 08 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff
050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
060: c0 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 10 00 00 c1 ff ff
070: 00 02 20 00 00 c1 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
080: 08 00 04 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff
090: 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0a0: 7e 99 7a f6 07 00 00 00 28 9c 8d 0c 00 e2 ff ff
0b0: 28 16 86 0c 00 e2 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
---

- page flags are 0x...80018, PG_uptodate/PG_dirty/PG_swapbacked,
  and count/map_count/mapping are all 0(no pproblem).
- contains "cgroup:..." line. this is the cause of bad page.

So, some pages that have not been uncharged by memcg
are beeing freed(I don't mount memcg, but don't specify
"cgroup_disable=memory").
I have not found yet the path where this can happen,
and I'm digging more.


Thanks,
Daisuke Nishimura.

*1 http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/17/367
*2 http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/19/62
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