Re: Ugly rmap NULL ptr deref oopsie on hibernate (was Linux2.6.34-rc3)

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Apr 02 2010 - 14:41:49 EST




On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 11:09:14 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > I think this is likely due to the new scalable anon_vma linking by Rik.
>
> Similar to https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15680

Yup, looks like the same thing, except that bugzilla entry was due to
swapping rather than hibernation and memory shrinking. But same end
result, just different reasons for why we were trying to shrink the page
lists.

Linus
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