Re: [boot crash #2] Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v2.6.39-rc1

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> >
> > * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >> > RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810570a9>]  [<ffffffff810570a9>] get_next_timer_interrupt+0x119/0x260
> >>
> >> That's a typical timer crash, but you were unable to debug it with
> >> debugobjects because commit d3f661d6 broke those.
> >>
> >> Christoph, debugobjects do not need to run with interupts
> >> disabled. And just because they were in that section to keep all the
> >> debug stuff together does not make an excuse for not looking at the
> >> code and just slopping it into some totally unrelated ifdef along with
> >> a completely bogus comment.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> >> ---
> >>  mm/slub.c |    4 ++--
> >>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
> >> ===================================================================
> >> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c
> >> +++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
> >> @@ -849,11 +849,11 @@ static inline void slab_free_hook(struct
> >>               local_irq_save(flags);
> >>               kmemcheck_slab_free(s, x, s->objsize);
> >>               debug_check_no_locks_freed(x, s->objsize);
> >> -             if (!(s->flags & SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS))
> >> -                     debug_check_no_obj_freed(x, s->objsize);
> >>               local_irq_restore(flags);
> >>       }
> >>  #endif
> >> +     if (!(s->flags & SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS))
> >> +             debug_check_no_obj_freed(x, s->objsize);
> >
> > Thanks, this did the trick!
> >
> > Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> >
> > With this fix i got the warning below - pinpointing a net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
> > timer bug.
> 
> Applied, thanks!

Just an update: all SLAB/SLUB problems appear to be fixed with the latest 
patches, so i'm a happy camper!

Thanks Pekka,

	Ingo