linux-kernel - Re: KVM induced panic on 2.6.38[2367] & 2.6.39

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Message-ID: <4DE5DCA8.7070704@fnarfbargle.com>
Date:	Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:31:04 +0800
From:	Brad Campbell <lists2009@...rfbargle.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
CC:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: KVM induced panic on 2.6.38[2367] & 2.6.39

On 01/06/11 12:52, Hugh Dickins wrote:

>
> I guess Brad could try SLUB debugging, boot with slub_debug=P
> for poisoning perhaps; though it might upset alignments and
> drive the problem underground.  Or see if the same happens
> with SLAB instead of SLUB.

Not much use I'm afraid.
This is all I get in the log

[ 3161.300073] 
=============================================================================
[ 3161.300147] BUG kmalloc-512: Freechain corrupt

The qemu process is then frozen, unkillable but reported in state "R"

13881 ?        R      3:27 /usr/bin/qemu -S -M pc-0.13 -enable-kvm -m 
1024 -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -nam

The machine then progressively dies until it's frozen solid with no 
further error messages.

I stupidly forgot to do an alt-sysrq-t prior to doing an alt-sysrq-b, 
but at least it responded to that.

On the bright side I can reproduce it at will.
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