On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 9:28 AM Jarkko Sakkinen
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 11:30:27AM -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> > Some machines generate a lot of event log entries.  When we're
> > iterating over them, the code removes the old mapping and adds a
> > new one, so once we cross the page boundary we're unmapping the page
> > with the count on it.  Hilarity ensues.
> >
> > This patch keeps the info from the header in local variables so we don't
> > need to access that page again or keep track of if it's mapped.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <[email protected]>
> > Tested-by: Lyude Paul <[email protected]>
>
> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]>

Jarkko, these two should probably go to 5.3 if possible - I
independently had a report of a system hitting this issue last week
(Intel apparently put a surprising amount of data in the event logs on
the NUCs).

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