Re: ARM/kirkwood: v3.12-rc6: kernel BUG at mm/util.c:390!

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Sun Oct 27 2013 - 09:43:08 EST


On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 09:16:53PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On ARM v3.9 or older kernels do not trigger this BUG, at seems it only
> > started to appear with the following commit (bisected):
> >
> > commit 1bc39742aab09248169ef9d3727c9def3528b3f3
> > Author: Simon Baatz <gmbnomis@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Mon Jun 10 21:10:12 2013 +0100
> >
> > ARM: 7755/1: handle user space mapped pages in flush_kernel_dcache_page
>
> The above commit only starts to implement the helper on ARM,
> but according to Documentation/cachetlb.txt, looks caller of
> flush_kernel_dcache_page() should make sure the passed
> 'page' is a user space page.

I don't think PageSlab() is the right test tho. Wouldn't testing
against user_addr_max() make more sense?

Thanks.

--
tejun
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