Re: Ugly rmap NULL ptr deref oopsie on hibernate (was Linux 2.6.34-rc3)

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From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Friday, April 2, 2010 - 11:09 am

I think this is likely due to the new scalable anon_vma linking by Rik. 
Nothing else I can imagine should have introduced anything like it.

Rik: the picures have the information, but you need to look at several to 
see both the oops and the backtrace. Here's a condensed version:

 shrink_all_memory ->
   do_try_to_free_pages ->
     shrink_zone ->
       shrink_inactive_list ->
         shrink_page_list ->
           page_referenced

where page_referenced() oopses due page_referenced_anon() as per 
Borislav's description below.

Added all the usual suspects to the Cc list. Left the full report appended 
so that the new people don't have to search for it on lkml.

		Linus

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Borislav Petkov wrote:
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Linux 2.6.34-rc3, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Mar 30, 10:50 am)
[Regression, post-rc2] Commit a5ee4eb7541 breaks OpenGL on ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Tue Mar 30, 2:16 pm)
Re: [Regression, post-rc2] Commit a5ee4eb7541 breaks OpenG ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Wed Mar 31, 6:13 pm)
Re: [Regression, post-rc2] Commit a5ee4eb7541 breaks OpenG ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Thu Apr 1, 12:46 pm)
Re: Ugly rmap NULL ptr deref oopsie on hibernate (was Linu ..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Apr 2, 11:09 am)
Re: [Regression, post-rc2] Commit a5ee4eb7541 breaks OpenG ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Sat Apr 3, 12:33 pm)
[PATCH] rmap: fix anon_vma_fork() memory leak, Rik van Riel, (Sun Apr 4, 4:09 pm)
Re: [PATCH] rmap: fix anon_vma_fork() memory leak, Minchan Kim, (Sun Apr 4, 4:56 pm)
Re: [PATCH] rmap: fix anon_vma_fork() memory leak, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Apr 5, 8:37 am)
Re: [PATCH] rmap: fix anon_vma_fork() memory leak, Minchan Kim, (Mon Apr 5, 8:48 am)
Re: [PATCH] rmap: fix anon_vma_fork() memory leak, Rik van Riel, (Mon Apr 5, 9:04 am)
[PATCH -v2] rmap: fix anon_vma_fork() memory leak, Rik van Riel, (Mon Apr 5, 9:13 am)
[No subject], Rik van Riel, (Tue Apr 6, 7:34 am)
[No subject], Rik van Riel, (Tue Apr 6, 7:38 am)
[No subject], Minchan Kim, (Tue Apr 6, 8:34 am)
[No subject], Rik van Riel, (Tue Apr 6, 8:40 am)
[No subject], Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 6, 8:55 am)
[No subject], Minchan Kim, (Tue Apr 6, 8:58 am)
[No subject], Minchan Kim, (Tue Apr 6, 9:23 am)
[No subject], Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 6, 9:28 am)
[No subject], Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 6, 9:32 am)
[No subject], Minchan Kim, (Tue Apr 6, 9:45 am)
[No subject], Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 6, 9:53 am)
[No subject], Minchan Kim, (Tue Apr 6, 9:54 am)
[No subject], Rik van Riel, (Tue Apr 6, 10:04 am)
[No subject], Borislav Petkov, (Tue Apr 6, 10:05 am)
Re: Ugly rmap NULL ptr deref oopsie on hibernate (was Linu ..., Steinar H. Gunderson, (Tue Apr 6, 12:10 pm)
Re: Ugly rmap NULL ptr deref oopsie on hibernate (was Linu ..., Steinar H. Gunderson, (Tue Apr 6, 1:46 pm)
Re: Ugly rmap NULL ptr deref oopsie on hibernate (was Linu ..., Steinar H. Gunderson, (Tue Apr 6, 2:05 pm)
[PATCH 1/3] mm: make page freeing path RCU-safe, Borislav Petkov, (Sun Apr 11, 6:19 am)
[PATCH 2/3] mm: cleanup find_mergeable_anon_vma complexity, Borislav Petkov, (Sun Apr 11, 6:19 am)
[PATCH 3/3] mm: fixup vma_adjust, Borislav Petkov, (Sun Apr 11, 6:19 am)
[PATCH 2/3] mm: cleanup find_mergeable_anon_vma complexity, Borislav Petkov, (Sun Apr 11, 6:25 am)
[PATCH 2/4] vma_adjust: fix the copying of anon_vma chains, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Apr 12, 1:23 pm)