other architectures may use it too) then it will do a kmap_atomic/kunmap_atomic. And those kmaps will create an atomic region that we cannot do allocations in. However, the whole stack expand code will need to do anon_vma_prepare() and vma_lock_anon_vma() and they cannot do that in an atomic region. Now, a better model might actually be to do the anon_vma_prepare() when _creating_ a VM_GROWSDOWN segment, and not have to worry about any of this at page fault time. But in the meantime, this is the straightforward fix for the issue. See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16588 for details. Reported-by: Wylda Reported-by: Sedat Dilek Reported-by: Mike Pagano Reported-by: François Valenduc Tested-by: Ed Tomlinson Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Greg KH Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Z