linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18-rt1

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Message-Id: <1159640756.4067.47.camel@mindpipe>
Date:	Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:25:55 -0400
From:	Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>
To:	dipankar@...ibm.com
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ibm.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rt1

On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 23:48 +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 02:06:04PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > I got this Oops with -rt3, looks RCU related.  Apologies in advance if
> > it's already known.
> > 
> > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 RIP: 
> >  [<ffffffff802aafa7>] __rcu_read_unlock+0x2e/0x82
> > PGD 46a3067 PUD 4e27067 PMD 0 
> > Oops: 0002 [1] PREEMPT SMP 
> > CPU 1 
> 
> I see a very similar crash while running rcutorture on 2.6.18-mm1 and
> my rcu patchset that has rcupreempt stuff rom -rt. I don't see this
> while running on 2.6.18-rc3, but then rc3 had an older version
> of rcutorture. I am working on narrowing it down.
> 
> The following script reproduces the problem quickly (within
> a couple of minutes) in my 4-cpu x86_64 system -

Let me know if you want more info such as config.  I was compiling a
kernel when the Oops occurred.  System is Athlon X2.

Lee

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