Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Richard Purdie wrote:

> I'm at a disadvantage here as the linux mm system is one area I've
> avoided getting too deeply involved with so far. My knowledge is
> therefore limited and I won't know what correct or incorrect behaviour
> would look like.
> 
> We know the the failure case can be identified by the
> cmpxchg_fail_flag_update condition being met. Can you provide me with a
> patch to dump useful debugging information when that occurs?

Well yes simply print out the information available in that context.

Index: linux-2.6.13-rc4-mm1/mm/memory.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.13-rc4-mm1.orig/mm/memory.c	2005-08-03 17:02:29.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc4-mm1/mm/memory.c	2005-08-05 08:17:14.000000000 -0700
@@ -2104,6 +2104,8 @@
 		update_mmu_cache(vma, address, entry);
 		lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
 	} else {
+		printk(KERN_CRIT "cmpxchg fail mm=%p vma=%p addr=%lx write=%d ptep=%p pmd=%p entry=%lx new=%lx\n",
+				mm, vma, address, write_access, pte, pmd, pte_val(entry), pte_val(new_entry));
 		inc_page_state(cmpxchg_fail_flag_update);
 	}
 
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