Hi Alan, I already sent a fix to Andrew and Andi for this (hrm, forget to CC lkml on the original message):
x86_64 mm cpa cache flush fix X86_64 and i386 cpa cache flush fix: list_del the deferred list entries to poison their pointers. clear the flag for every page put in the list. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/mm/pageattr.c | 3 ++- arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6-lttng/arch/i386/mm/pageattr.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/arch/i386/mm/pageattr.c 2007-06-29 12:33:47.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6-lttng/arch/i386/mm/pageattr.c 2007-06-29 12:35:45.000000000 -0400 @@ -245,10 +245,11 @@ spin_unlock_irq(&cpa_lock); flush_map(&l); list_for_each_entry_safe(pg, next, &l, lru) { + clear_bit(PG_arch_1, &pg->flags); + list_del(&pg->lru); if (page_private(pg) != 0) continue; ClearPagePrivate(pg); - clear_bit(PG_arch_1, &pg->flags); __free_page(pg); } } Index: linux-2.6-lttng/arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c 2007-06-29 12:33:51.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6-lttng/arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c 2007-06-29 12:34:57.000000000 -0400 @@ -235,10 +235,11 @@ flush_map(&l); list_for_each_entry_safe(pg, next, &l, lru) { + clear_bit(PG_arch_1, &pg->flags); + list_del(&pg->lru); if (page_private(pg) != 0) continue; ClearPagePrivate(pg); - clear_bit(PG_arch_1, &pg->flags); __free_page(pg); } } * Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > X86 32bit with lots of debug turned on I get this: > > > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed > Write protecting the kernel text: 1668k > Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 719k > Bad page state in process 'swapper' > page:c10000c0 flags:0x00000400 mapping:00000000 mapcount:0 count:0 > Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed > Backtrace: > [<c024589c>] bad_page+0x6c/0x100 > [<c024648d>] free_hot_cold_page+0x5d/0x140 > [<c02116c2>] global_flush_tlb+0x112/0x130 > [<c020102d>] init_post+0xd/0xe0 > [<c047c876>] kernel_init+0x216/0x220 > [<c0214c50>] schedule_tail+0x0/0xe0 > [<c047c660>] kernel_init+0x0/0x220 > [<c047c660>] kernel_init+0x0/0x220 > [<c0204227>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 > ======================= > Hexdump: > 000: 00 06 00 00 01 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff 0f 00 00 00 > 010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 78 00 00 c1 b8 00 00 c1 > 020: 00 06 00 00 01 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff a7 03 00 00 > 030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 98 00 00 c1 d8 00 00 c1 > 040: 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 > 050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b8 00 00 c1 f8 00 00 c1 > 060: 00 06 00 00 01 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff 00 04 00 00 > 070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 d8 00 00 c1 18 01 00 c1 > 080: 00 06 00 00 01 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff 9c 03 00 00 > 090: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00 c1 38 01 00 c1 > 0a0: 00 06 00 00 01 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff 00 04 00 00 > 0b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 18 01 00 c1 58 01 00 c1 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/