Re: 2.6.17-rc5-mm3

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Randy.Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:

> > > panic on NUMA-Q during LTP. Was fine in -mm2.
> > > 
> > > BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 22222232
> > 
> > > EIP is at check_deadlock+0x19/0xe1
> > > eax: 00000001   ebx: e4453030   ecx: 00000000   edx: e4008000
> > > esi: 22222222   edi: 00000001   ebp: 22222222   esp: e47ebec0
> > 
> > again these 0x22222222 entries on the stack. What on earth does this? 
> > Andy got a similar crash on x86_64, with a 0x2222222222222222 entry ...
> > 
> > nothing of our magic values are 0x22 or 0x222222222.
> 
> kernel/mutex-debug.c:
> void debug_mutex_free_waiter(struct mutex_waiter *waiter)
> {
> 	DEBUG_WARN_ON(!list_empty(&waiter->list));
> 	memset(waiter, 0x22, sizeof(*waiter));
> }

ah!!! that's indeed a hint. Will take a look tomorrow.

	Ingo