mm: Regression with v7.0-rc1 on RISC-V

[Ron Economos]

On 2/24/26 04:58, Kefeng Wang wrote:
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> On 2026/2/24 16:37, Ron Economos wrote:
>> I'm getting a BUG dump during shutdown with Linux v7.0-rc1 on RISC-V.
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>> [  OK  ] Reached target shutdown.target - System Shutdown.
>> [  OK  ] Reached target final.target - Late Shutdown Services.
>> [  OK  ] Finished systemd-reboot.service - System Reboot.
>> [  OK  ] Reached target reboot.target - System Reboot.
>> [  173.985249] BUG: Bad page state in process shutdown pfn:f8850
>> [  173.985311] page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0xf8850
>> [  173.985336] flags: 0xffff80000000000(node=0|zone=0| lastcpupid=0x1ffff) CMA
>> [  173.985365] raw: 0ffff80000000000 ffffffc501e21448 ffffffc600f2ae88 0000000000000000
>> [  173.985386] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
>> [  173.985403] page dumped because: nonzero _refcount
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> The refcount set to 1 when cma_alloc() by set_page_refcounted(), and it
> will be dec to 0 in cma_release() by put_page_testzero(), there may be a problem somewhere else?
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> Could you enable CONFIG_DEBUG_VM and CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_REF, and try to track down page reference manipulation by tracepoint? or 
> for CMA-related
> pages, introduce explicit printk both increments and decrements of the page reference count to identify the root cause of the issue.
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Something strange is going on. I enabled CONFIG_DEBUG_VM by itself and the issue went away. Let me try CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_REF.