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Date:	Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:08:46 +0800
From:	ye janboe <janboe.ye@...il.com>
To:	naveen yadav <yad.naveen@...il.com>
Cc:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel-request@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk,
	linux newbie <linux.newbie79@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Subject: Re: Kmemcheck issue

hi, Naveen

Since kmemcheck is slow on arm which lack hw singlestep, I do not plan
to maintain this patch.

If you want to check slab error, please try kmudflap I posted in the mail list.

Janboe

2010/4/20 naveen yadav <yad.naveen@...il.com>:
> Hi Vegard,
>
> Thanks for your answer, but this is coming from kmemchek only
>
> thanks
> naveen
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com> wrote:
>> On 19 April 2010 15:23, naveen yadav <yad.naveen@...il.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> á á á I áam átrying to á run áKmemcheck on á a áCortex ( ARM-v7)
>>> board árunning áLinux 2.6.30.9
>>>
>>> At boot-up time, áas ásoon áas áTimer-device is áenabled, á I áfind
>>> that á timer ágets ádisabled ábecause ásystem
>>> gets spurious áinterrupts áon áthat áirq áline.
>>>
>>>
>>> PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
>>> Linux System timer initialize
>>> irq 23: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
>>> [<c002e148>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xe8) from [<c002c4b8>]
>>> (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c)
>>> [<c002c4b8>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c) from [<c006ad74>]
>>> (__report_bad_irq+0x80/0xb0)
>>> [<c006ad74>] (__report_bad_irq+0x80/0xb0) from [<c006af28>]
>>> (note_interrupt+0x184/0x1f0)
>>> [<c006af28>] (note_interrupt+0x184/0x1f0) from [<c006ba38>]
>>> (handle_edge_irq+0xe8/0x160)
>>> [<c006ba38>] (handle_edge_irq+0xe8/0x160) from [<c0027060>]
>>> (asm_do_IRQ+0x60/0x74)
>>> [<c0027060>] (asm_do_IRQ+0x60/0x74) from [<c0027a30>] (__irq_svc+0x30/0x80)
>>> Exception stack(0xc0373ec0 to 0xc0373f08)
>>> 3ec0: 00000017 c0372000 00000002 00000000 00000002 c038e8f4 00000000 0aa00000
>>> 3ee0: c0372000 c03bfc40 0000001f c0373f44 00000100 c0373f08 c0047ffc c0047c98
>>> 3f00: 20000153 ffffffff
>>> [<c0027a30>] (__irq_svc+0x30/0x80) from [<c0047ffc>] (irq_exit+0x44/0x4c)
>>> [<c0047ffc>] (irq_exit+0x44/0x4c) from [<c0047ffc>] (irq_exit+0x44/0x4c)
>>> [<c0047ffc>] (irq_exit+0x44/0x4c) from [<c0027064>] (asm_do_IRQ+0x64/0x74)
>>> [<c0027064>] (asm_do_IRQ+0x64/0x74) from [<c0027a30>] (__irq_svc+0x30/0x80)
>>> Exception stack(0xc0373f78 to 0xc0373fc0)
>>> 3f60: á á á á á á á á á á á á á á á á á á á á á á á á á á á 00000000 c037c15c
>>> 3f80: 00000001 600001d3 955fffff c00242ec c0399f80 0aa00000 c0023000 412fc082
>>> 3fa0: 0000001f c0373ff4 c0373fc0 c0373fc0 c0008974 c0019798 20000153 ffffffff
>>> [<c0027a30>] (__irq_svc+0x30/0x80) from [<c0008974>] (start_kernel+0x168/0x3e4)
>>> [<c0008974>] (start_kernel+0x168/0x3e4) from [<60008034>] (0x60008034)
>>> handlers:
>>> [<c003a604>] (sdp_timer_interrupt+0x0/0x38)
>>> Disabling IRQ #23
>>> Console: colour dummy device 80x30
>>> console [ttyS1] enabled
>>> Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
>>> Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
>>>
>>>
>>> Later, áwhen ácalibrating delay áloop, áthe system is hung áas timer
>>> is not working.
>>>
>>> The problem happens áeven if áI áset kmemcheck_enabled = 0 at áboot.
>>> ( I also commented out á á pagetable_init(&meminfo) á).
>>>
>>> áIf áyou have seen this before, áplease let me know.
>>>
>>> ( I know that áyour patch was written for á ARM v6. á á My cpu is
>>> Cortex . á áI am aware that áI may have to make some change in the
>>> áinstruction simulation handling. )
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> First up, I see a lot of funny á characters in your text.
>>
>> I think that this is not about kmemcheck, but kmemleak. kmemcheck is
>> for catching references to uninitialized memory while kmemleak is for
>> detecting memory leaks. kmemcheck only works on x86 so far (with an
>> ARM patch by Ye Janboe, but it is not in mainline). kmemleak, however,
>> was written on ARM.
>>
>> I put Catalin Marinas (kmemleak author) on Cc.
>>
>> Please correct me if I am wrong. Good luck.
>>
>>
>> Vegard
>>
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