Re: mm/rmap.c negative page map count BUG.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Wed Jan 04 2006 - 18:55:37 EST


On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 03:53:26PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Can you print ->flags, ->count, ->mapping, etc instead of going BUG?
> >
> > I can add some instrumentation like this though, and see what turns up.
>
> Can we get that instrumentation into the upstream kernel please? We do
> seem to be hitting rmap assertions too often for it to be dud
> hardware/bodgy drivers/etc.

This is what I came up with..
anything missing ?

Dave

--- linux-2.6.14/mm/rmap.c~ 2006-01-03 08:53:32.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.14/mm/rmap.c 2006-01-03 08:58:19.000000000 -0500
@@ -484,6 +484,13 @@ void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page)
BUG_ON(PageReserved(page));

if (atomic_add_negative(-1, &page->_mapcount)) {
+ if (page_mapcount(page) < 0) {
+ printk (KERN_EMERG "Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (%d)\n", page->_mapcount);
+ printk (KERN_EMERG " page->flags = %x\n", page->flags);
+ printk (KERN_EMERG " page->count = %x\n", page->_count);
+ printk (KERN_EMERG " page->mapping = %p\n", page->mapping);
+ }
+
BUG_ON(page_mapcount(page) < 0);
/*
* It would be tidy to reset the PageAnon mapping here,
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