Bug 620874

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Created attachment 442499 [details]
panic

Same panic on .70

Before the most recent oops, I see:

mapcount 2 page_mapcount 3

The VM I was running was using a patch, upstream qemu-kvm with the following options:

-enable-kvm -m 2000 -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -name rhel6vm -uuid 1e3f234d-338f-e438-1d43-14393856409c -nodefconfig -nodefaults -monitor stdio -rtc base=utc -boot c -drive if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/VMs/rhel6vm.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0 -usb -vga cirrus -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 -netdev tap,script=/home/alwillia/bin/br0-ifup,id=hostnet0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:5f:78:73,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3,txtimer=1 -vnc :1 -no-kvm-irqchip -no-kvm-pit

Host system is a 12G, single socket Xeon W3520 (nehalem class)

Hello,

I build a kernel that includes the fix for bug 627591 . I also added some debug code specific for this bugreport so if this happens again we'll know more of what's going on, but you'll have to include the output before the oops too (I'll be printed as 1 line before the page_mapcount %d mapcount %d line).

http://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=2729732

Please use this build until you can reproduce again. I've absolutely never seen this myself, and I only recall one report from CAI Qian in bug 622327 where one stack trace is identical to yours. I thought 622327 was bad hardware. It also worth comparing the CPU and systems you're using to be sure it's not the same cpu that leads to bad results considering THP is stressing bits of the CPU that normally wouldn't be stressed to this extent.

It probably can be explained as the slab RCU race condition fixed by Hugh. I'm not 100% sure though, so we need more testing with the above build to be sure. If it's that bug you need to stress the slab a lot.

I'll mark this as duplicate of 622327 because that bug also has another different stack trace within page_lock_anon_vma context (the very function patched by the fix of bug 627591).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 622327 ***

debug code failed build in some arch, submitted now build as in comment #8

https://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/taskinfo?taskID=2729988