On 5 December 2016 at 20:11, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nos...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5 December 2016 at 18:55, Linus Torvalds > <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nos...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> Since you apparently can recreate this fairly easily, how about trying >> this stupid patch? >> >> NOTE! This is entirely untested. I may have screwed this up entirely. >> You get the idea, though - just remove the wait queue head from the >> list - the list entries stay around, but nothing points to the stack >> entry (that we're going to free) any more. >> >> And add the warning to see if this actually ever triggers (and because >> I'd like to see the callchain when it does, to see if it's another >> waitqueue somewhere or what..) > > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > WARNING: CPU: 22 PID: 14012 at mm/shmem.c:2668 shmem_fallocate+0x9a7/0xac0 > Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...
So I noticed that panic_on_warn just after sending the email and I've been waiting for it it to trigger again. The warning has triggered twice more without panic_on_warn set and I haven't seen any crash yet. Vegard