linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.25-rc2 - Kernel Ooops while running dbench

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Date:	Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:51:19 +0200
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Kamalesh Babulal" <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, "Andy Whitcroft" <apw@...dowen.org>,
	"Balbir Singh" <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.25-rc2 - Kernel Ooops while running dbench

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:14:46 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal
<kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>  > The 2.6.25-rc2 kernel oopses while running dbench on ext3 filesystem
>  > mounted with mount -o data=writeback,nobh option on the x86_64 box
>  >
>  > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
>  > IP: [<ffffffff80274972>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x3a/0x6c
>  > PGD 1f6860067 PUD 1f5d64067 PMD 0
>  > Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
>  > CPU 3
>  > Modules linked in:
>  > Pid: 4271, comm: dbench Not tainted 2.6.25-rc2-autotest #1
>  > RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff80274972>]  [<ffffffff80274972>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x3a/0x6c
>  > RSP: 0000:ffff8101fb041dc8  EFLAGS: 00010246
>  > RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff810180033c00 RCX: ffffffff8027b269
>  > RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000080d0 RDI: ffffffff80632d70
>  > RBP: 00000000000080d0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
>  > R10: ffff8101feb36e50 R11: 0000000000000190 R12: 0000000000000001
>  > R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8101f8f38000 R15: 00000000ffffff9c
>  > FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8101fff0f000(0063) knlGS:00000000f7e41460
>  > CS:  0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033
>  > CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000001f5620000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
>  > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
>  > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
>  > Process dbench (pid: 4271, threadinfo ffff8101fb040000, task ffff8101fb180000)
>  > Stack:  0000000000000001 ffff8101fb041ea8 0000000000000001 ffffffff8027b269
>  >  ffff8101fb041ea8 ffffffff80281fe8 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
>  >  ffff8101fb041ea8 00000000ffffff9c 000000000000000b 0000000000000001
>  > Call Trace:
>  >  [<ffffffff8027b269>] get_empty_filp+0x55/0xf9
>  >  [<ffffffff80281fe8>] __path_lookup_intent_open+0x22/0x8f
>  >  [<ffffffff80282853>] open_namei+0x86/0x5a7
>  >  [<ffffffff8027d019>] vfs_stat_fd+0x3c/0x4a
>  >  [<ffffffff80279ab1>] do_filp_open+0x1c/0x3d
>  >  [<ffffffff80279c2c>] get_unused_fd_flags+0x79/0x111
>  >  [<ffffffff80279dce>] do_sys_open+0x46/0xca
>  >  [<ffffffff80221c82>] ia32_sysret+0x0/0xa

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>  Looks to me like we broke slab.  Christoph is offline until the 27th..

This is probably fixed by:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=00e962c5408b9f2d0bebd2308673fe982cb9a5fe

As this is on the regression list, Kamalesh, can you please confirm
it's fixed now?

                             Pekka
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