linux-kernel - Re: WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory (f6f6e1a4), by kmemleak's scan

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Date:	Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:57:38 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized
	memory (f6f6e1a4), by kmemleak's scan_block()

On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 12:43 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> btw., i re-tested the original tree, and got the lockup/crash below.
> 
> 	Ingo
> 
> --------------->
> EXT3 FS on sdb1, internal journal
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with writeback data mode.
> BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [kmemleak:3080]

Do you have the "Allow rescheduling during object scanning" patch? Apart
from that, you may need another for not holding the tasklist_lock when
scanning the task stacks - it is at the top of my kmemleak branch,
together with a patch or informing kmemleak about thread stack
allocations
(http://www.linux-arm.org/git?p=linux-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/kmemleak).

With these patches, I don't get any soft lockups on my system.

-- 
Catalin

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