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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 3.2.0-rc1 panic on PowerPC
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:25:42 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1321838742.13860.8.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.01.1111201701000.8000@trent.utfs.org>

On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 17:17 -0800, Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 at 11:58, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > I've seen something similar with 3.2-rc2 at cfcfc9ec, unfortunately I
> > couldn't capture the oops log at the time.
> 
> It just happened again today, after heavy CPU & IO load (rsyncing from/to 
> external disks on dm-crypt). This time the oops was printed on the screen 
> but nothing on netconsole:
> 
> http://nerdbynature.de/bits/3.2.0-rc1/oops/oops3m.JPG
> 
> It looks like the oops I reported earlier (oops2m.JPG) so I doubt it's a 
> random corruption due to hardware issues...?

Yeah it's starting to look like a pattern. Your latest oops looks a lot
like the one I had (though it was with tg3 on the g5), ie, vfs_read ->
driver -> allocator -> crash.

> Any debug or boot options to set in my next kernel build?

Well, you can turn everything on see whether that makes any difference
or finds something a bit more precisely

Cheers,
Ben.

> Thanks,
> Christian.
> 
> > Looks like there's some kind of memory corruption happening. So far I
> > haven't been able to get a good target at what could be causing it.
> 

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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: 3.2.0-rc1 panic on PowerPC
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:25:42 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1321838742.13860.8.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.01.1111201701000.8000@trent.utfs.org>

On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 17:17 -0800, Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 at 11:58, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > I've seen something similar with 3.2-rc2 at cfcfc9ec, unfortunately I
> > couldn't capture the oops log at the time.
> 
> It just happened again today, after heavy CPU & IO load (rsyncing from/to 
> external disks on dm-crypt). This time the oops was printed on the screen 
> but nothing on netconsole:
> 
> http://nerdbynature.de/bits/3.2.0-rc1/oops/oops3m.JPG
> 
> It looks like the oops I reported earlier (oops2m.JPG) so I doubt it's a 
> random corruption due to hardware issues...?

Yeah it's starting to look like a pattern. Your latest oops looks a lot
like the one I had (though it was with tg3 on the g5), ie, vfs_read ->
driver -> allocator -> crash.

> Any debug or boot options to set in my next kernel build?

Well, you can turn everything on see whether that makes any difference
or finds something a bit more precisely

Cheers,
Ben.

> Thanks,
> Christian.
> 
> > Looks like there's some kind of memory corruption happening. So far I
> > haven't been able to get a good target at what could be causing it.
> 



  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-21  1:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-15  8:44 3.2.0-rc1 panic on PowerPC Christian Kujau
2011-11-20 23:31 ` Christian Kujau
2011-11-21  0:58   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-11-21  0:58     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-11-21  1:17     ` Christian Kujau
2011-11-21  1:17       ` Christian Kujau
2011-11-21  1:25       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2011-11-21  1:25         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-11-21  1:51         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-11-21  1:51           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-11-21  2:03           ` Christian Kujau
2011-11-21  2:03             ` Christian Kujau
2011-11-21  8:08         ` Markus Trippelsdorf

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