Re: [PATCHv4 00/10] split page table lock for PMD tables

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Mon Oct 07 2013 - 05:48:32 EST


Alex Thorlton wrote:
> > > Sorry for the delay on these results. I hit some strange issues with
> > > running thp_memscale on systems with either of the following
> > > combinations of configuration options set:
> > >
> > > [thp off]
> > > HUGETLBFS=y
> > > HUGETLB_PAGE=y
> > > NUMA_BALANCING=y
> > > NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED=y
> > >
> > > [thp on or off]
> > > HUGETLBFS=n
> > > HUGETLB_PAGE=n
> > > NUMA_BALANCING=y
> > > NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED=y
> > >
> > > I'm getting segfaults intermittently, as well as some weird RCU sched
> > > errors. This happens in vanilla 3.12-rc2, so it doesn't have anything
> > > to do with your patches, but I thought I'd let you know. There didn't
> > > used to be any issues with this test, so I think there's a subtle kernel
> > > bug here. That's, of course, an entirely separate issue though.
> >
> > I'll take a look next week, if nobody does it before.
>
> I'm starting a bisect now. Not sure how long it'll take, but I'll keep
> you posted.

I don't see the issue. Could you share your kernel config?

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Kirill A. Shutemov
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