linux-kernel - Re: crash in kmem_cache

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Message-ID: <84144f020801170414q7d408a74uf47a84b777c36a4a@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:14:11 +0200
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Olaf Hering" <olaf@...fle.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	clameter@....com, "Linux MM" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: crash in kmem_cache_init

Hi Olaf,

[Adding Christoph as cc.]

On Jan 15, 2008 5:09 PM, Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de> wrote:
> Current linus tree crashes in kmem_cache_init, as shown below. The
> system is a 8cpu 2.2GHz POWER5 system, model 9117-570, with 4GB ram.
> Firmware is 240_332, 2.6.23 boots ok with the same config.
>
> There is a series of mm related patches in 2.6.24-rc1:
> commit 04231b3002ac53f8a64a7bd142fde3fa4b6808c6 seems to break it,

So that's the "Memoryless nodes: Slab support" patch that I think
cause a similar oops while ago.

> Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000040
> Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000437470
> cpu 0x0: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000000075b830]
>     pc: c000000000437470: ._spin_lock+0x20/0x88
>     lr: c0000000000f78a8: .cache_grow+0x7c/0x338
>     sp: c00000000075bab0
>    msr: 8000000000009032
>    dar: 40
>  dsisr: 40000000
>   current = 0xc000000000665a50
>   paca    = 0xc000000000666380
>     pid   = 0, comm = swapper
> enter ? for help
> [c00000000075bb30] c0000000000f78a8 .cache_grow+0x7c/0x338
> [c00000000075bbf0] c0000000000f7d04 .fallback_alloc+0x1a0/0x1f4
> [c00000000075bca0] c0000000000f8544 .kmem_cache_alloc+0xec/0x150
> [c00000000075bd40] c0000000000fb1c0 .kmem_cache_create+0x208/0x478
> [c00000000075be20] c0000000005e670c .kmem_cache_init+0x218/0x4f4
> [c00000000075bee0] c0000000005bf8ec .start_kernel+0x2f8/0x3fc
> [c00000000075bf90] c000000000008590 .start_here_common+0x60/0xd0

Looks similar to the one discussed on linux-mm ("[BUG] at
mm/slab.c:3320" thread). Christoph?
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