On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 12:56:14PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 3:25 AM, tip-bot for Kirill A. Shutemov
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Commit-ID:  f2a6a7050109e0a5c7a84c70aa6010f682b2f1ee
> > Gitweb:     
> > http://git.kernel.org/tip/f2a6a7050109e0a5c7a84c70aa6010f682b2f1ee
> > Author:     Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
> > AuthorDate: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 21:55:15 +0300
> > Committer:  Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> > CommitDate: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 08:56:58 +0200
> >
> > x86: Convert the rest of the code to support p4d_t
> >
> > This patch converts x86 to use proper folding of a new (fifth) page table 
> > level
> > with <asm-generic/pgtable-nop4d.h>.
> >
> > That's a bit of a kitchen sink patch, but I don't see how to split it 
> > further
> > without hurting bisectability.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
> > Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
> > Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Link: 
> > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> 
> Following Ingo's revert of commit 2947ba054a4d "x86/mm/gup: Switch GUP
> to the generic get_user_page_fast() implementation", I gave
> tip.git/master a try to see if it resolved the original failing
> signature I was seeing with the "device-dax" regression test [1] on
> next/master. It turns out that there are two failing signatures and I
> need to use the revert during the bisect to find this other
> regression. This new bisect points to commit f2a6a7050109 "x86:
> Convert the rest of the code to support p4d_t" as the culprit.
> 
> [   43.194330] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff880300000000

I cannot reproduce the issue.

Could you share your kernel kernel config?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

Reply via email to