[Bug 87891] New: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:2625!

[Joonsoo Kim]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 03:22:41AM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 04:49:13PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:36:28 -0600 (CST) Christoph Lameter <cl at linux.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 
> > > > There's no point in doing
> > > >
> > > > 	#define GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK (__GFP_DMA32|__GFP_HIGHMEM|~__GFP_BITS_MASK)
> > > >
> > > > because __GFP_DMA32|__GFP_HIGHMEM are already part of ~__GFP_BITS_MASK.
> > > 
> > > ?? ~__GFP_BITS_MASK means bits 25 to 31 are set.
> > > 
> > > __GFP_DMA32 is bit 2 and __GFP_HIGHMEM is bit 1.
> > 
> > Ah, yes, OK.
> > 
> > I suppose it's possible that __GFP_HIGHMEM was set.
> > 
> > do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page
> > ->pte_alloc_one
> >   ->alloc_pages(__userpte_alloc_gfp==__GFP_HIGHMEM)
> 
> do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page
>  alloc_hugepage_vma
>   alloc_pages_vma(GFP_TRANSHUGE)
> 
> GFP_TRANSHUGE contains GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, which has __GFP_HIGHMEM.

Hello, Kirill.

BTW, why does GFP_TRANSHUGE have MOVABLE flag despite it isn't
movable? After breaking hugepage, it could be movable, but, it may
prevent CMA from working correctly until break.

Thanks.