BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference under stress (possibly related to https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/24/292 ?)
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Please try the following on top of 5.2-rc3
mm/compaction.c +1
-2@@ -277,8 +277,7 @@ __reset_isolation_pfn(struct zone *zone, unsigned long pf n, bool check_source, }/* Ensure the end of the pageblock or zone is online and valid */ - block_pfn += pageblock_nr_pages; - block_pfn =min (block_pfn,zone_end_pfn (zone) -1 ); + block_pfn =min (pageblock_end_pfn (block_pfn),zone_end_pfn (zone) -1 ) ;end_page = pfn_to_online_page(block_pfn); if (!end_page) return false;mm/compaction.c +1
-1@@ -289,7 +288,7 @@ __reset_isolation_pfn(struct zone *zone, unsigned long pfn, bool check_source, * is necessary for the block to be a migration source/target. */ do { - if (pfn_valid_within(pfn)) { + if (pfn_valid(pfn)) { if (check_source && PageLRU(page)) {
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clear_pageblock_skip(page);
return true;no joy; I left the FF build running and found the machine frozen this morning; however, firefox build could apparently complete successfully; I can't say when exactly the problem happened, as I haven't found any message in the logs
thanks
ciao
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