linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v3.10

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Date:	Tue, 7 May 2013 22:16:03 -0700
From:	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v3.10

* Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com> [130507 21:30]:
> * Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com> [130507 17:35]:
> > * Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org> [130506 23:42]:
> > > Hi Linus,
> > > 
> > > Please pull the latest SLAB tree from:
> > > 
> > >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux.git slab/for-linus
> > ...
> > 
> > >       mm, slab_common: Fix bootstrap creation of kmalloc caches
> > 
> > This one seems to cause a regression for me on at least arm omap
> > and vexpress that depends on some kconfig option I have not been
> > able to figure out yet. Reverting 8a965b3b fixes the issue.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> OK got it narrowed down to CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y causing the problem
> with commit 8a965b3b. Ain't nothing like bisecting and booting and then
> diffing .config files on top of that. 

Hmm it's actually CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y that causes the problem,
not CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y. CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y was just selected
by CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y in my non-booting .config. I can now fix my
non-booting .config by removing PROVE_LOCKING and DEBUG_SPINLOCK,
but I cannot break my other working .config by adding PROVE_LOCKING
and DEBUG_SPINLOCK. Hmm.
  
> > Without reverting 8a965b3b I'm getting:
> > 
> > [    0.000000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000054
> > [    0.000000] pgd = c0004000
> > [    0.000000] [00000054] *pgd=00000000
> > [    0.000000] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM
> > [    0.000000] Modules linked in:
> > [    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-11486-g6d13e11 #689
> > [    0.000000] task: c06f77c8 ti: c06ec000 task.ti: c06ec000
> > [    0.000000] PC is at kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x50/0x178
> > [    0.000000] LR is at kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x38/0x178
> > [    0.000000] pc : [<c00edab4>]    lr : [<c00eda9c>]    psr: 600001d3
> > [    0.000000] sp : c06edf70  ip : 600001d3  fp : 00000000
> > [    0.000000] r10: 000000c0  r9 : c0086958  r8 : 000080d0
> > [    0.000000] r7 : 00000000  r6 : 600001d3  r5 : 00000000  r4 : 00008000
> > [    0.000000] r3 : 00000050  r2 : c06ec000  r1 : c06f77c8  r0 : c00eda9c
> > [    0.000000] Flags: nZCv  IRQs off  FIQs off  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment kernel
> > [    0.000000] Control: 10c5387d  Table: 6000406a  DAC: 00000015
> > [    0.000000] Process swapper/0 (pid: 0, stack limit = 0xc06ec240)
> > [    0.000000] Stack: (0xc06edf70 to 0xc06ee000)
> > [    0.000000] df60:                                     00002014 00000010 c0702890 00000000
> > [    0.000000] df80: 00000000 00000000 00000000 410fc090 c06f4480 c0086958 c0702890 00000000
> > [    0.000000] dfa0: 00000010 c06dc0b0 ffffffff c06b44f4 9fffffff c073834c c0738340 c06a5828
> > [    0.000000] dfc0: ffffffff ffffffff c06a5478 00000000 00000000 c06dc0b0 00000000 10c5387d
> > [    0.000000] dfe0: c06f44c8 c06dc4b4 c06f8cac 6000406a 00000000 60008074 00000000 00000000
> > [    0.000000] [<c00edab4>] (kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x50/0x178) from [<c0086958>] (alloc_desc+0x24/0xb4)
> > [    0.000000] [<c0086958>] (alloc_desc+0x24/0xb4) from [<c06b44f4>] (early_irq_init+0x78/0xec)
> > [    0.000000] [<c06b44f4>] (early_irq_init+0x78/0xec) from [<c06a5828>] (start_kernel+0x17c/0x33c)
> > [    0.000000] [<c06a5828>] (start_kernel+0x17c/0x33c) from [<60008074>] (0x60008074)
> > [    0.000000] Code: e5923014 e2833014 e1a03103 e0873003 (e5931004)
> > [    0.000000] ---[ end trace 1b75b31a2719ed1c ]---
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