Re: kernel BUG at mm/shmem.c:LINE!

[Hugh Dickins]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 11:53:15PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> 
> and fixing the bug differently ;-)  But many thanks for spotting it!

I thought you might :)

> 
> I'll look into the next bug you reported ...

No need: that idea now works a lot better when I use the initialized
"start", instead of the uninitialized "index".

Hugh

--- mmotm/mm/khugepaged.c	2018-07-20 17:54:41.978805312 -0700
+++ linux/mm/khugepaged.c	2018-07-26 09:20:22.416949014 -0700
@@ -1352,6 +1352,7 @@ static void collapse_shmem(struct mm_str
 			goto out;
 	} while (1);
 
+	xas_set(&xas, start);
 	for (index = start; index < end; index++) {
 		struct page *page = xas_next(&xas);