Re: [ProbableSpam]Re: 2.6.25-git2: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 03:15:00AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 of April 2008, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:26:04AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > > On 04/21/2008 11:58 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > > >Leaving untouched.
> > > >
> > > >On 04/21/2008 11:18 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > > >>On 04/21/2008 10:39 PM, David Miller wrote:
> > > >>>From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > > >>>Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:54:07 -0700 (PDT)
> > > >>>
> > > >>>>What I find interesting is that at least for me, I have the SLAB 
> > > >>>>bucket size for nf_conntrack_expect being 208 bytes. And the 
> > > >>>>*biggest* merge by far after 2.6.25 so far has been networking (and 
> > > >>>>conntrack in particular)
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>Is that a smoking gun? Not necessarily. But it *is* intriguing. But 
> > > >>>>there are other possible clashes (the 192-byte bucket has several 
> > > >>>>different suspects, and not all of them are in networking).1
> > > >>>
> > > >>>I think you might be onto something here.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>The "mask" member of struct nf_conntrack_expect could be reasonably
> > > >>>all 1's like the value reported in the crash that begins this
> > > >>>thread.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>Do we know the offset within the object at which this all 1's
> > > >>>value is found?
> > > >>>
> > > >>>My rough calculations show that on 32-bit that expect->mask member is
> > > >>>at offset 56 and on 64-bit it should be at offset 72.  Does that
> > > >>>match up to the offset of the filp or whatever bit being corrupted?
> > > >>
> > > >>dentry.d_name.name is 56 on 64-bit (my memcmp crashes)
> > > >>dentry.d_hash.next is 24 (crashed at least 3 times here, rafael's one)
> > > >>dentry.d_op is 136 (crash below)
> > > >
> > > >file.f_mapping is 176 (the another one from -rc8-mm2)
> > > >
> > > >the one at:
> > > >http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/9008289.html 
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Having slub_debug enabled, tomorrow will be results, I guess...
> > > 
> > > Sorry, one more entry:
> > > 
> > > 00000000000000f0 dentry.d_op (Zdenek, offset ? around 136)
> > > 00f0000000000000 dentry.d_hash.next (me, offset 24)
> > > ffff81f02003f16c dentry.d_name.name (me, offset 56)
> > >         memory ORed by 000000f000000000
> > > fffff0002004c1b0 file.f_mapping (me, offset 176)
> > >         memory hole, it was something like
> > >         (ffff81002004c1b0 & ~00000f0000000000) | 0000f00000000000?
> > > ffffffffffffffff dentry.d_hash.next (Rafael, offset ? around 24)
> > >         -1, ~0ULL
> > 
> > Are these running with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU?  Grasping at straws, but
> > there are a couple of patches that need to move from -rt to mainline,
> > but mostly related to SELinux.  So if both PREEMPT_RCU and SELinux
> > were in use, we might be missing "rcu-various-fixups.patch" from:
> > 
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/patch-2.6.24.4-rt4-broken-out.tar.bz2
> 
> My kernel is only voluntarily preemptible (ie. CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y).
> 
> It is an SMP one, however.

Then this patch won't help you.  :-/  I submitted separately anyway.

							Thanx, Paul