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From: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>,
	David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>,
	linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bio linked list corruption.
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:02:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6b07630-26bf-6886-4257-68d3a4fa9b8c@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwE3x_w9+8SkHGBAGR5Du7P18+e55GWzcKOrORh87c7Qg@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/24/2016 05:50 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> The vmalloc/vfree code itself is a bit scary. In particular, we have a
>> rather insane model of TLB flushing. We leave the virtual area on a
>> lazy purge-list, and we delay flushing the TLB and actually freeing
>> the virtual memory for it so that we can batch things up.
>
> Never mind. If DaveJ is running with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, then the code in
> vmap_debug_free_range() should have forced a synchronous TLB flush fro
> vmalloc ranges too, so that doesn't explain it either.
>

My big fear here is that we're just triggering an old stack corruption 
more reliably.  I wonder if we can make it happen much faster by 
restricting the stacks to a static list and cycling through them in lifo 
fashion?

-chris

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-24 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 118+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-11 14:45 btrfs bio linked list corruption Dave Jones
2016-10-11 15:11 ` Al Viro
2016-10-11 15:19   ` Dave Jones
2016-10-11 15:20     ` Chris Mason
2016-10-11 15:49       ` Dave Jones
2016-10-11 15:54 ` Chris Mason
2016-10-11 16:25   ` Dave Jones
2016-10-12 13:47   ` Dave Jones
2016-10-12 14:40     ` Dave Jones
2016-10-12 14:42       ` Chris Mason
2016-10-13 18:16         ` Dave Jones
2016-10-13 21:18           ` Chris Mason
2016-10-13 21:56             ` Dave Jones
2016-10-16  0:42             ` Dave Jones
2016-10-18  1:07               ` Chris Mason
2016-10-18 22:42 ` Dave Jones
2016-10-18 23:12   ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-18 23:31     ` Chris Mason
2016-10-18 23:36       ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-18 23:39       ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-18 23:42         ` Chris Mason
2016-10-19  0:10           ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-19  0:19             ` Chris Mason
2016-10-19  0:28             ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-20 22:48               ` Dave Jones
2016-10-19  1:05             ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-20 22:50               ` Dave Jones
2016-10-20 23:01                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-20 23:03                   ` Dave Jones
2016-10-20 23:23                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-21 20:02                       ` Dave Jones
2016-10-21 20:17                         ` Chris Mason
2016-10-21 20:23                           ` Dave Jones
2016-10-21 20:38                             ` Chris Mason
2016-10-21 20:41                               ` Josef Bacik
2016-10-21 21:11                                 ` Dave Jones
2016-10-22 15:20                         ` Dave Jones
2016-10-23 21:32                           ` Chris Mason
2016-10-24  4:40                             ` Dave Jones
2016-10-24 13:42                               ` Chris Mason
2016-10-26  0:27                                 ` Dave Jones
2016-10-26  1:33                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-26  1:39                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-26 16:30                                       ` Dave Jones
2016-10-26 16:48                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-26 18:18                                           ` Dave Jones
2016-10-26 18:42                                           ` Dave Jones
2016-10-26 19:06                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-26 20:00                                               ` Chris Mason
2016-10-26 21:52                                                 ` Chris Mason
2016-10-26 22:21                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-26 22:40                                                     ` Dave Jones
2016-10-26 22:51                                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-26 22:55                                                         ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-26 22:58                                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-26 23:03                                                           ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-26 23:07                                                             ` Dave Jones
2016-10-26 23:08                                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-26 23:20                                                               ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-26 23:38                                                                 ` Chris Mason
2016-10-26 23:47                                                                   ` Dave Jones
2016-10-27  0:00                                                                     ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-27 13:33                                                                       ` Chris Mason
2016-10-31 18:55                                                                     ` Dave Jones
2016-10-31 19:35                                                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-31 19:44                                                                         ` Chris Mason
2016-11-06 16:55                                                                           ` btrfs btree_ctree_super fault Dave Jones
2016-11-08 14:59                                                                             ` Dave Jones
2016-11-08 15:08                                                                               ` Chris Mason
2016-11-10 14:35                                                                                 ` Dave Jones
2016-11-10 15:27                                                                                   ` Chris Mason
2016-11-23 19:34                                                                           ` bio linked list corruption Dave Jones
2016-11-23 19:58                                                                             ` Dave Jones
2016-12-01 15:32                                                                               ` btrfs_destroy_inode warn (outstanding extents) Dave Jones
2016-12-03 16:48                                                                                 ` Dave Jones
2016-12-07 16:15                                                                                   ` Dave Jones
2016-12-09 21:12                                                                                 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-12-04 23:04                                                                               ` bio linked list corruption Vegard Nossum
2016-12-05 11:10                                                                                 ` Vegard Nossum
2016-12-05 17:09                                                                                   ` Vegard Nossum
2016-12-05 17:21                                                                                     ` Dave Jones
2016-12-05 17:55                                                                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2016-12-05 19:11                                                                                       ` Vegard Nossum
2016-12-05 20:10                                                                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2016-12-05 20:35                                                                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2016-12-05 21:33                                                                                             ` Vegard Nossum
2016-12-06  8:42                                                                                               ` Vegard Nossum
2016-12-06  8:16                                                                                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-12-06  8:36                                                                                               ` Ingo Molnar
2016-12-06 16:33                                                                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2016-12-05 20:10                                                                                         ` Vegard Nossum
2016-12-05 18:11                                                                                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-12-05 18:25                                                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-12-05 18:26                                                                                   ` Vegard Nossum
2016-10-26 23:19                                                             ` Chris Mason
2016-10-26 23:21                                                               ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-27  6:33                                                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-27 16:34                                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-27 16:36                                                                 ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-26 23:01                                                         ` Dave Jones
2016-10-26 23:05                                                           ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-26 22:52                                                       ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-26 22:07                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-26 22:54                                                   ` Chris Mason
2016-10-27  5:41                                   ` Dave Chinner
2016-10-27 17:23                                     ` Dave Jones
2016-10-24 20:06                               ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-24 20:46                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-24 21:17                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-24 21:50                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-24 22:02                                       ` Chris Mason [this message]
2016-10-24 22:42                                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-25  0:00                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-25  1:09                                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-19 17:09           ` Philipp Hahn
2016-10-19 17:43             ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-20  6:52               ` Ingo Molnar
2016-10-20  7:17                 ` Thomas Gleixner

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