Re: linux-next: slab shrinkers: BUG at mm/list_lru.c:92

[Michal Hocko]

On Tue 18-06-13 02:30:05, Glauber Costa wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 02:35:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
[...]
> > The trace says shrink_slab_node->super_cache_scan->prune_icache_sb.  So
> > it's inodes?
> > 
> Assuming there is no memory corruption of any sort going on , let's
> check the code. nr_item is only manipulated in 3 places:
> 
> 1) list_lru_add, where it is increased
> 2) list_lru_del, where it is decreased in case the user have voluntarily removed the
>    element from the list
> 3) list_lru_walk_node, where an element is removing during shrink.
> 
> All three excerpts seem to be correctly locked, so something like this
> indicates an imbalance.  Either the element was never added to the
> list, or it was added, removed, and we didn't notice it. (Again, your
> backing storage is not XFS, is it? If it is , we have another user to
> look for)

No this is ext3. But I can try to test with xfs as well if it helps.
[...]
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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