The irqbalance problem on Xen.org sounds like the daemon crashing (which
is not the case here). In the Redhat bug report it feels like people use
crash when they mean hang. I remember there were some requests about
backporting interrupt related patches. But due to the differences in the
EC2 kernels I could not backport all of them. And then you had the same
issue using the ec2 kernels and the generic kernels which have those
changes.

The other bug report looks quite similar but then the mapping address is
an even one, so that would be a file backed mapping. And the latest
update to that report seems a problem detected while releasing pages but
looks to be missing the other information. It looks to be origination
from python in that case, maybe that helps a bit.

That said, when I enable function tracing on the kernel anon_vma_prepare
and anon_vma_unlink functions, then irqbalance causes mappings and
unmappings in a loop. Actually it happens quite a lot by other
processes. But maybe if you run that as well there is something sticking
out doing many of them (may increase the chance to go wrong).

as root change into /sys/kernel/debug/tracing, then
echo "anon_vma_prepare anon_vma_unlink" >set_ftrace_filter
echo function >current_tracer
cat trace_pipe | tee /tmp/ftrace.log

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