Re: 2.6.15-rc4 panic in __nr_to_section() with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM

[Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 23:05 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > Hi Andy,
> > 
> > I getting a panic while doing "cat /proc/<pid>/smaps" on
> > a process. I debugged a little to find out that faulting
> > IP is in _nr_to_section() - seems to be getting somehow
> > called by  pte_offset_map_lock() from smaps_pte_range
> > (which show_smaps) calls.
> > 
> > Any ideas on why or how to debug further ? 
> 
> From dave's call graph I'd ask the question whether we should be calling
> pfn_valid() before pfn_to_page().  When I reviewed the proposed
> pfn_to_page() implementation I only recall one use and that already had
> the pfn_valid() in it.  I'll review -rc4 in the morning.

BTW, the problem seems to be while dealing with shared memory areas
that are backed by largepages.


db2inst1@elm3b157:~> cat /proc/12030/maps
...
100000000-101598000 rw-s 00000000 00:07
589826                           /SYSV2a079461 (deleted)
...

db2inst1@elm3b157:~> cat /proc/12030/smaps
...
100000000-101598000 rw-s 00000000 00:07 5Segmentation fault


Thanks,
Badari