Hi, I ran into series of following binder mmap failures with v4.0.0-rc1: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1971 at mm/vmalloc.c:130 vmap_page_range_noflush+0x119/0x144() CPU: 0 PID: 1971 Comm: healthd Not tainted 4.0.0-rc1-00399-g7da3fdc-dirty #157 Hardware name: ARM-Versatile Express [<c001246d>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c000f7f9>] (show_stack+0x11/0x14) [<c000f7f9>] (show_stack) from [<c049a221>] (dump_stack+0x59/0x7c) [<c049a221>] (dump_stack) from [<c001cf21>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x55/0x84) [<c001cf21>] (warn_slowpath_common) from [<c001cfe3>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x17/0x1c) [<c001cfe3>] (warn_slowpath_null) from [<c00c66c5>] (vmap_page_range_noflush+0x119/0x144) [<c00c66c5>] (vmap_page_range_noflush) from [<c00c716b>] (map_vm_area+0x27/0x48) [<c00c716b>] (map_vm_area) from [<c038ddaf>] (binder_update_page_range+0x12f/0x27c) [<c038ddaf>] (binder_update_page_range) from [<c038e857>] (binder_mmap+0xbf/0x1ac) [<c038e857>] (binder_mmap) from [<c00c2dc7>] (mmap_region+0x2eb/0x4d4) [<c00c2dc7>] (mmap_region) from [<c00c3197>] (do_mmap_pgoff+0x1e7/0x250) [<c00c3197>] (do_mmap_pgoff) from [<c00b35b5>] (vm_mmap_pgoff+0x45/0x60) [<c00b35b5>] (vm_mmap_pgoff) from [<c00c1f39>] (SyS_mmap_pgoff+0x5d/0x80) [<c00c1f39>] (SyS_mmap_pgoff) from [<c000ce81>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x1/0x5c) ---[ end trace 48c2c4b9a1349e54 ]--- binder: 1982: binder_alloc_buf failed to map page at f0e00000 in kernel binder: binder_mmap: 1982 b6bde000-b6cdc000 alloc small buf failed -12
Turned out that the following commit tripped off binder: ----------8<---------- commit 71394fe50146202f2c8d92cf50f5ebc761acf254 Author: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabi...@samsung.com> Date: Fri Feb 13 14:40:03 2015 -0800 mm: vmalloc: add flag preventing guard hole allocation ---------->8---------- Explicitly disabling the vmalloc no guard (VM_NO_GUARD) flag in binder worked fine for me. So does a fix like this look reasonable enough to submit? ----------8<---------- --- a/drivers/android/binder.c +++ b/drivers/android/binder.c @@ -601,6 +601,7 @@ static int binder_update_page_range(struct binder_proc *proc, int allocate, goto err_alloc_page_failed; } tmp_area.addr = page_addr; + tmp_area.flags &= ~VM_NO_GUARD; tmp_area.size = PAGE_SIZE + PAGE_SIZE /* guard page? */; ret = map_vm_area(&tmp_area, PAGE_KERNEL, page); if (ret) { ---------->8---------- Regards, Amit Pundir -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/