linux-kernel - Re: [Bug #13941] x86 Geode issue

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Message-ID: <11fae7c70908161412v61fd233au5166e18f4c4d0931@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:12:17 +0300
From:	Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@....fi>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug #13941] x86 Geode issue

2009/8/16 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>:
>
> * Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@....fi> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki<rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
>> > On Thursday 13 August 2009, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki<rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
>> >> > On Thursday 13 August 2009, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> >> >> 2009/8/13 Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@....fi>:
>> >> >> > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Ingo Molnar<mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>> >> >> >> * Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@....fi> wrote:
>> >> >> >>> Yes, this bug is still valid.
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Ubuntu kernel team member Leann Ogasawara and I are slowly
>> >> >> >>> bisecting our way through the changes that took place since 2.6.30
>> >> >> >>> to find the commit that introduced this regression. Please stay
>> >> >> >>> tuned.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> hm, the only outright Geode related commit was:
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>  d6c585a: x86: geode: Mark mfgpt irq IRQF_TIMER to prevent resume failure
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> the jpg at:
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>  http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28892781/00002.jpg
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> is very out of focus - but what i could decypher suggests a
>> >> >> >> pagefault crash in the VFS code, in generic_delete_inode().
>> >> >>
>> >> >> This one might be a bit better:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30267494/2.6.31-5.24.jpg
>> >
>> > Hmm.  This looks like a sysfs oops to my untrained eye.
>>
>> The bisect I did with Leann Ogasawara has narrowed the kernel panic
>> down to the following:
>>
>> commit f19d4a8fa6f9b6ccf54df0971c97ffcaa390b7b0
>> Author: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
>> Date: Mon Jun 8 19:50:45 2009 -0400
>>
>>     add caching of ACLs in struct inode
>>
>>     No helpers, no conversions yet.
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
>
> Weird. If the functions do what their name suggests, i.e. if
> inode_init_always() is an always called constructor and if
> destroy_inode() is an unconditional destructor then this patch
> should have no functional effect on the VFS side.
>
> It increases the size of struct inode, so if you have some old
> module (built to an older version of fs.h) still around it might
> corrupt your inode data structure.
>
> Or the size change might trigger some dormant bug. It might move a
> critical inode right into the path of a pre-existing (but not
> visibly crash-triggering) data corruption.
>
> The possibilities on the 'weird bug' front are endless - the
> crash/oops itself should be turned into text, posted here and
> analyzed.

If you mean something else than the large-size snapshot of the whole
panic output that was linked earlier in this thread, I'd appreciate
instructions on how to turn that crash into text.

Martin-Éric
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