Re: [Bug] Reproducible data corruption on i5-3340M: Please revert53a59fc67!

[Michal Hocko]

[Forgot to add Peter]

On Wed 14-08-13 19:40:39, Michal Hocko wrote:
> [Let's CC some more people]
> 
> On Wed 14-08-13 18:36:53, Ben Tebulin wrote:
> > Hello Michal, Johannes, Balbir, Kamezawa and Mailing lists!
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Since v3.7.2 on two independent machines a very specific Git repository
> > fails in 9/10 cases on git-fsck due to an SHA1/memory failures. This
> > only occurs on a very specific repository and can be reproduced stably
> > on two independent laptops. Git mailing list ran out of ideas and for me 
> > this looks like some very exotic kernel issue.
> > 
> > After a _very long session of rebooting and bisecting_ the Linux kernel
> > (fortunately I had a SSD and ccache!) I was able to pinpoint the cause
> > to the following patch:
> > 
> > *"mm: limit mmu_gather batching to fix soft lockups on !CONFIG_PREEMPT"*
> >   787f7301074ccd07a3e82236ca41eefd245f4e07 linux stable    [1]
> >   53a59fc67f97374758e63a9c785891ec62324c81 upstream commit [2]
> 
> Thanks for bisecting this up!
> 
> I will look into this but I find it really strange. The patch only
> limits the number of batched pages to be freed. This might happen even
> without the patch, albeit less likely, when a new batch cannot be
> allocated.
> That being said, I do not see anything obviously wrong with the patch
> itself. Maybe we are not flushing those pages properly in some corner
> case which doesn't trigger normally. I will have to look at it but I
> really think this just exhibits a subtle bug in batch pages freeing.
> 
> I have no objection to revert the patch for now until we find out what
> is really going on.
> 
> > More details are available in my previous discussion on the Git mailing:
> > 
> >    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/231872
> > 
> > Never had any hardware/stability issues _at all_ with these machines. 
> > Only one repo out of 112 is affected. It's a git-svn clone and even 
> > recreated copies out of svn do trigger the same failure.
> > 
> > I was able to bisect this error to this very specific commit. 
> > Furthermore: Reverting this commit in 3.9.11 still solves the error. 
> > 
> > I assume this is a regression of the Linux kernel (not Git) and would 
> > kindly ask you to revert the afore mentioned commits.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > - Ben
> > 
> > 
> > I'm not subscribed - please CC me.
> > 
> > [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=787f7301074ccd07a3e82236ca41eefd245f4e07
> > [2] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=53a59fc67f97374758e63a9c785891ec62324c81
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
> 
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