[PATCH v4 29/33] x86/mm: try VMA lock-based page fault handling first

[Jiri Slaby]

On 30. 06. 23, 10:28, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>  > 2348 
> clone3({flags=CLONE_VM|CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_SETTLS|CLONE_PARENT_SETTID|CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID, child_tid=0x7fcaa5882990, parent_tid=0x7fcaa5882990, exit_signal=0, stack=0x7fcaa5082000, stack_size=0x7ffe00, tls=0x7fcaa58826c0} => {parent_tid=[2351]}, 88) = 2351
>  > 2350  <... clone3 resumed> => {parent_tid=[2372]}, 88) = 2372
>  > 2351  <... clone3 resumed> => {parent_tid=[2354]}, 88) = 2354
>  > 2351  <... clone3 resumed> => {parent_tid=[2357]}, 88) = 2357
>  > 2354  <... clone3 resumed> => {parent_tid=[2355]}, 88) = 2355
>  > 2355  <... clone3 resumed> => {parent_tid=[2370]}, 88) = 2370
>  > 2370  mmap(NULL, 262144, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, 
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0 <unfinished ...>
>  > 2370  <... mmap resumed>)               = 0x7fca68249000
>  > 2372  <... clone3 resumed> => {parent_tid=[2384]}, 88) = 2384
>  > 2384  <... clone3 resumed> => {parent_tid=[2388]}, 88) = 2388
>  > 2388  <... clone3 resumed> => {parent_tid=[2392]}, 88) = 2392
>  > 2392  <... clone3 resumed> => {parent_tid=[2395]}, 88) = 2395
>  > 2395  write(2, "runtime: marked free object in s"..., 36 <unfinished 
> ...>
> 
> I.e. IIUC, all are threads (CLONE_VM) and thread 2370 mapped ANON 
> 0x7fca68249000 - 0x7fca6827ffff and go in thread 2395 thinks for some 
> reason 0x7fca6824bec8 in that region is "bad".

As I was noticed, this might be as well be a fail of the go's 
inter-thread communication (or alike) too. It might now be only more 
exposed with vma-based locks as we can do more parallelism now.

There are older hard to reproduce bugs in go with similar symptoms (we 
see this error sometimes now too):
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15246

Or this 2016 bug is a red herring. Hard to tell...

>> thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs