linux-kernel - Re: CONFIG_PREMPT vs. linux-next causes slub

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Date:	Wed, 11 Jun 2014 13:54:13 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@...omium.org>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_PREMPT vs. linux-next causes slub_debug=FZPUA errors

On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:38:00 -0700 Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Recently, both Andrew Bresticker (CCed) and I have noticed errors
> reported by slub_debug when using linuxnext.  I'm still seeing them on
> 20140606.
> 
> 
> NOTES:
> * errors only seem to be present when you've got CONFIG_PREMPT enabled.
> 
> * errors seem to happen most often when rebooting, but I've seen them
> during other times as well.
> 
> * a quick guesstimate is that ~50% of my reboots show this problem.
> 
> * I'm testing on an exynos5250-based board and Andrew on an ARM board
> with a different SoC.
> 
> * I don't see issues on a current fetch of "linux", AKA (5b174fd Merge
> branch 'for-3.16' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux)
> 
> 
> I didn't do a full bisect, but I don't seem to see issues on 20140528.
> On 20140530 I see almost constant slub errors (seems much worse than
> 20140606)
> 
> An example error is below:
> 
> 
> [   13.521842] =============================================================================
> [   13.528566] BUG bio-1 (Not tainted): Poison overwritten
> [   13.533765] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [   13.533765]
> [   13.543394] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
> [   13.548685] INFO: 0xec495848-0xec49584f. First byte 0x80 instead of 0x6b
> [   13.555378] INFO: Allocated in mempool_alloc_slab+0x24/0x28 age=28
> cpu=5 pid=220
> [   13.562741]  kmem_cache_alloc+0x90/0x1d0
> [   13.566640]  mempool_alloc_slab+0x24/0x28
> [   13.570631]  mempool_alloc+0x4c/0x144
> [   13.574279]  bio_alloc_bioset+0xa4/0x1b0
> [   13.578182]  __split_and_process_bio+0x33c/0x3f0
> [   13.582778]  dm_request+0x1f0/0x204
> [   13.586248]  generic_make_request+0xa4/0xdc
> [   13.590411]  submit_bio+0x114/0x144

This one is possibly a bug in DM or the BIO layer.

Do you have more examples?  I couldn't locate a report from Andrew.
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