Re: [linus:master] [mm/mmap] 0503ea8f5b: kernel_BUG_at_mm/filemap.c

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Sun Feb 26 2023 - 22:52:33 EST


On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 10:17:56PM -0500, Liam R. Howlett wrote:
> Are you sure about this bisection? I'm not saying it isn't my fault or
> looking to blame others, but I suspect we are indeed looking at the
> wrong commit here.

I concur. Looking at the backtrace, I think it's more likely to be
a pagecache, swapcache or shmfs issue. I'll look more in the morning.

> > bin/lkp qemu -k <bzImage> -m modules.cgz job-script # job-script is attached in this email
> >
> > # if come across any failure that blocks the test,
> > # please remove ~/.lkp and /lkp dir to run from a clean state.
> >
>
> This does not work for me. Since my last use of lkp it seems something
> was changed and now -watchdog is not recognized by my qemu and so my
> attempts to reproduce this are failing. Is there a way to avoid using
> the -watchdog flag? Running the command by hand fails as it seems some
> files are removed on exit?

https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/about/removed-features.html

-watchdog (since 7.2)

Use -device instead.

(I have no idea what this means, but maybe it's a clue?)