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When a user process exits, the kernel cleans up the mm_struct of the user process and during cleanup, check_mm() checks the page tables of the user process for corruption (E.g: unexpected page flags set/cleared). For corrupted page tables, the error message printed by check_mm() isn't very clear as it prints the loop index instead of page table type (E.g: Resident file mapping pages vs Resident shared memory pages). The loop index in check_mm() is used to index rss_stat[] which represents individual memory type stats. Hence, instead of printing index, print memory type, thereby improving error message. Without patch: -------------- [ 204.836425] mm/pgtable-generic.c:29: bad p4d 0000000089eb4e92(800000025f941467) [ 204.836544] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:00000000f75895ea idx:0 val:2 [ 204.836615] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:00000000f75895ea idx:1 val:5 [ 204.836685] BUG: non-zero pgtables_bytes on freeing mm: 20480 With patch: ----------- [ 69.815453] mm/pgtable-generic.c:29: bad p4d 0000000084653642(800000025ca37467) [ 69.815872] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:00000000014a6c03 type:MM_FILEPAGES val:2 [ 69.815962] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:00000000014a6c03 type:MM_ANONPAGES val:5 [ 69.816050] BUG: non-zero pgtables_bytes on freeing mm: 20480 Also, change print function (from printk(KERN_ALERT, ..) to pr_alert()) so that it matches the other print statement. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/da75b5153f617f4c5739c08ee6ebeb3d19db0fbc.1565123758.git.sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.