[PATCH] rmap: additional diagnostics in page_remove_rmap() We seem to be hitting this assertion failure too often for it to be hardware bugs. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c index 6f3f7db..66ec430 100644 --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -514,6 +514,13 @@ void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page) { if (atomic_add_negative(-1, &page->_mapcount)) { + if (page_mapcount(page) < 0) { + printk (KERN_EMERG "Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (%d)\n", page_mapcount(page)); + printk (KERN_EMERG " page->flags = %lx\n", page->flags); + printk (KERN_EMERG " page->count = %x\n", page_count(page)); + printk (KERN_EMERG " page->mapping = %p\n", page->mapping); + } + BUG_ON(page_mapcount(page) < 0); /* * It would be tidy to reset the PageAnon mapping here,