From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
Yinghai.Lu@sun.com, apw@shadowen.org, travis@sgi.com,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:19:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080415211953.GA4243@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0804151405120.3252@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
* Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > and the bug pattern seems to be memory corruption - not memory
> > exhaustion.
>
> SLUB does not do a memory allocation where it fails here but simply
> accesses per cpu information that is expected to be already zeroed.
>
> > i.e. we allocated RAM but it got corrupted after allocation.
>
> In some situations we are screwing up the per cpu data handling on 32
> bit x86? Adding Mike. This looks like the per cpu area overlaps with
> something else?
yep, that was my other theory - and i doubled CONFIG_NR_CPUS to reduce
that chance.
in hindsight ... that wont save us from any overlap, right?
what's the best way to artificially increase the size of the allocated
per cpu area? (say double it)
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-15 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-11 7:41 [bug] mm/slab.c boot crash in -git, "kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:2103!" Ingo Molnar
2008-04-11 8:21 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-11 8:50 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-11 8:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-11 9:05 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-11 9:08 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-11 9:11 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-11 9:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-11 10:34 ` Nick Piggin
2008-04-11 19:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-12 10:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-12 17:22 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-15 5:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 9:36 ` Mel Gorman
2008-04-15 10:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 6:25 ` [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9 Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 6:41 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-15 7:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 8:31 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-15 8:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 9:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 16:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-15 16:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 17:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-15 19:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 19:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 19:39 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-15 19:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 20:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-15 20:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 20:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 20:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 20:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 20:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-15 20:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 21:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-15 21:16 ` Mike Travis
2008-04-15 21:19 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-04-15 21:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-15 21:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 21:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-15 21:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 21:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-15 21:43 ` Mike Travis
2008-04-15 22:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 21:27 ` Mike Travis
2008-04-15 20:34 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-15 20:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 21:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-15 21:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 21:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 21:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-15 21:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 22:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-15 22:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 22:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-15 22:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 23:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-15 23:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 23:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-16 0:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-15 23:18 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-16 0:03 ` [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corruption fix Ingo Molnar
2008-04-16 0:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-16 0:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-16 0:32 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-16 0:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-16 0:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-16 0:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-16 1:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-16 1:30 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-16 2:00 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-16 2:20 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-04-16 0:56 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-16 1:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-16 1:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-16 0:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-16 0:33 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-16 0:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-16 0:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-16 0:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-16 0:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-16 0:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-16 1:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-16 2:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-16 1:48 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-04-16 14:05 ` Mel Gorman
2008-04-16 15:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 20:54 ` [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9 Christoph Lameter
2008-04-15 20:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 21:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 20:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-11 19:26 ` [bug] mm/slab.c boot crash in -git, "kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:2103!" Christoph Lameter
2008-04-11 19:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-15 5:49 ` Ingo Molnar
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