Re: 2.6.28-rc3 mem_cgroup panic

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Fri Nov 07 2008 - 21:46:32 EST


KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki said:
> Badari Pulavarty said:
>> Hi Balbir,
>>
>> I was running memory remove/add tests in a continuous loop.
>> I get following panic in mem_cgroup migration code.
>>
>> Is this a known issue ?
>>
> No, this is new one. We don't see panic in cpuset based migration..so..
> Maybe related to page_cgroup allocation/free code in memory hotplug
> notifier.
>
> Thank you for report. I'll try this.
>
Hmm...at quick look...

online/offline page_cgroup's calculation for "start" is buggy..

-start = start_pfn & (PAGES_PER_SECTION - 1);
+start = start_pfn & ~(PAGES_PER_SECTION - 1);

I'm sorry I can't write patch today.

Regards,
-Kame

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