Steven Noonan forwarded a users report where they had a problem starting
vsftpd on a Xen paravirtualized guest, with this in dmesg:
BUG: Bad page map in process vsftpd pte:8000000493b88165 pmd:e9cc01067
page:ffffea00124ee200 count:0 mapcount:-1 mapping: (null) index:0x0
page flags: 0x2ffc0000000014(referenced|dirty)
addr:00007f97eea74000 vm_flags:00100071 anon_vma:ffff880e98f80380 mapping: (null) index:7f97eea74
CPU: 4 PID: 587 Comm: vsftpd Not tainted 3.12.7-1-ec2 #1
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x45/0x56
print_bad_pte+0x22e/0x250
unmap_single_vma+0x583/0x890
unmap_vmas+0x65/0x90
exit_mmap+0xc5/0x170
mmput+0x65/0x100
do_exit+0x393/0x9e0
do_group_exit+0xcc/0x140
SyS_exit_group+0x14/0x20
system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff880e9ca60580 idx:0 val:-1
BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff880e9ca60580 idx:1 val:1
The issue could not be reproduced under an HVM instance with the same
kernel, so it appears to be exclusive to paravirtual Xen guests. He
bisected the problem to commit 1667918b64 ("mm: numa: clear numa
hinting information on mprotect") that was also included in 3.12-stable.
The problem was related to how xen translates ptes because it was not
accounting for the _PAGE_NUMA bit. This patch splits pte_present to add
a pteval_present helper for use by xen so both bare metal and xen use
the same code when checking if a PTE is present.
[mgorman@suse.de: wrote changelog, proposed minor modifications]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo in comment]
Reported-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Tested-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Elena Ufimtseva <ufimtseva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.12+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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