Mikhail Gavrilo reported the following bug being triggered in a Fedora
kernel based on 5.1-rc1 but it is relevant to a vanilla kernel.
kernel: page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(p))
kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel: kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:1021!
kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
kernel: CPU: 6 PID: 116 Comm: kswapd0 Tainted: G C 5.1.0-0.rc1.git1.3.fc31.x86_64 #1
kernel: Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/ROG STRIX X470-I GAMING, BIOS 1201 12/07/2018
kernel: RIP: 0010:__reset_isolation_pfn+0x244/0x2b0
kernel: Code: fe 06 e8 0f 8e fc ff 44 0f b6 4c 24 04 48 85 c0 0f 85 dc fe ff ff e9 68 fe ff ff 48 c7 c6 58 b7 2e 8c 4c 89 ff e8 0c 75 00 00 <0f> 0b 48 c7 c6 58 b7 2e 8c e8 fe 74 00 00 0f 0b 48 89 fa 41 b8 01
kernel: RSP: 0018:ffff9e2d03f0fde8 EFLAGS: 00010246
kernel: RAX: 0000000000000034 RBX: 000000000081f380 RCX: ffff8cffbddd6c20
kernel: RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000006 RDI: ffff8cffbddd6c20
kernel: RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000009898b94613 R09: 0000000000000000
kernel: R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000100000
kernel: R13: 0000000000100000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffca7de07ce000
kernel: FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8cffbdc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
kernel: CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
kernel: CR2: 00007fc1670e9000 CR3: 00000007f5276000 CR4: 00000000003406e0
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel: __reset_isolation_suitable+0x62/0x120
kernel: reset_isolation_suitable+0x3b/0x40
kernel: kswapd+0x147/0x540
kernel: ? finish_wait+0x90/0x90
kernel: kthread+0x108/0x140
kernel: ? balance_pgdat+0x560/0x560
kernel: ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90
kernel: ret_from_fork+0x27/0x50
He bisected it down to e332f741a8 ("mm, compaction: be selective about
what pageblocks to clear skip hints"). The problem is that the patch in
question was sloppy with respect to the handling of zone boundaries. In
some instances, it was possible for PFNs outside of a zone to be examined
and if those were not properly initialised or poisoned then it would
trigger the VM_BUG_ON. This patch corrects the zone boundary issues when
resetting pageblock skip hints and Mikhail reported that the bug did not
trigger after 30 hours of testing.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190327085424.GL3189@techsingularity.net
Fixes: e332f741a8 ("mm, compaction: be selective about what pageblocks to clear skip hints")
Reported-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
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