Re: linux-next boot error: WARNING in prepare_kswapd_sleep

[Alex Shi]

在 2020/11/25 上午1:59, Lorenzo Stoakes 写道:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 at 07:54, syzbot
> <syzbot+ce635500093181f39c1c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> syzbot found the following issue on:
>>
>> HEAD commit:    d9137320 Add linux-next specific files for 20201124
> 
> This appears to be a product of 4b2904f3 ("mm/memcg: add missed
> warning in mem_cgroup_lruvec") adding a VM_WARN_ON_ONCE() to
> mem_cgroup_lruvec, which when invoked from a function other than
> mem_cgroup_page_lruvec() can in fact be called with the condition
> false.
> If we move the check back into mem_cgroup_page_lruvec() it resolves
> the issue. I enclose a simple version of this below, happy to submit
> as a proper patch if this is the right approach:
> 
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> index 87ed56dc75f9..27cc40a490b2 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -618,7 +618,6 @@ static inline struct lruvec
> *mem_cgroup_lruvec(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>                 goto out;
>         }
> 
> -       VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!memcg);
>         if (!memcg)
>                 memcg = root_mem_cgroup;
> 
> @@ -645,6 +644,7 @@ static inline struct lruvec
> *mem_cgroup_lruvec(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>  static inline struct lruvec *mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(struct page *page,
>                                                 struct pglist_data *pgdat)
>  {
> +       VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_PAGE(!page_memcg(page), page);
>         return mem_cgroup_lruvec(page_memcg(page), pgdat);
>  }
> 

Acked.

Right. Would you like to remove the bad commit 4b2904f3 ("mm/memcg: add missed
 warning in mem_cgroup_lruvec") and replace yours.

and further more, could you like try another patch?

Thanks
Alex