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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	hbabu@us.ibm.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	vgoyal@redhat.com
Subject: Re: crashing on lowmem-only config (was: kexec refuses to boot latest -mm)
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:08:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <478278C9.8030006@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080107175303.GA9319@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Dhaval Giani wrote:
> 
> .config
> 

This appears to be unrelated, but booting this configuration on a stock 
2.6.24-rc7 kernel crashes during bootup with no initrd if the memory 
size is 896 MB or less (i.e. lowmem only):

Bad page state in process 'swapper'
page:c1b59800 flags:0xdead4aad mapping:00000000 mapcount:0 count:0
Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
Backtrace:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc7 #1
  [<c0105ff3>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
  [<c0106885>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
  [<c0106b7b>] dump_stack+0x6c/0x72
  [<c015c5c3>] bad_page+0x67/0x93
  [<c015d33e>] __free_pages_ok+0x63/0x2f3
  [<c015d5f2>] __free_pages+0x24/0x26
  [<c05c70ea>] __free_pages_bootmem+0x5f/0x63
  [<c05c57c9>] free_all_bootmem_core+0xcd/0x1a4
  [<c05c58ad>] free_all_bootmem+0xd/0xf
  [<c05c244c>] mem_init+0x81/0x31b
  [<c05b4639>] start_kernel+0x2af/0x335
  [<00000000>] 0x0
  =======================
Bad page state in process 'swapper'
[...]
  =======================
BUG: spinlock lockup on CPU#0, swapper/0, 00000e28
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G    B   2.6.24-rc7 #1
  [<c0105ff3>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
  [<c0106885>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
  [<c0106b7b>] dump_stack+0x6c/0x72
  [<c024b9a9>] _raw_spin_lock+0xc1/0xe2
  [<c0411d08>] _spin_lock+0x32/0x38
  [<c015d3f9>] __free_pages_ok+0x11e/0x2f3
  [<c015d5f2>] __free_pages+0x24/0x26
  [<c05c70ea>] __free_pages_bootmem+0x5f/0x63
  [<c05c57c9>] free_all_bootmem_core+0xcd/0x1a4
  [<c05c58ad>] free_all_bootmem+0xd/0xf
  [<c05c244c>] mem_init+0x81/0x31b
  [<c05b4639>] start_kernel+0x2af/0x335
  [<00000000>] 0x0
  =======================
[hang]

Booting with > 896 MB works...

	-hpa

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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com, hbabu@us.ibm.com,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: crashing on lowmem-only config (was: kexec refuses to boot latest -mm)
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:08:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <478278C9.8030006@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080107175303.GA9319@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Dhaval Giani wrote:
> 
> .config
> 

This appears to be unrelated, but booting this configuration on a stock 
2.6.24-rc7 kernel crashes during bootup with no initrd if the memory 
size is 896 MB or less (i.e. lowmem only):

Bad page state in process 'swapper'
page:c1b59800 flags:0xdead4aad mapping:00000000 mapcount:0 count:0
Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
Backtrace:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc7 #1
  [<c0105ff3>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
  [<c0106885>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
  [<c0106b7b>] dump_stack+0x6c/0x72
  [<c015c5c3>] bad_page+0x67/0x93
  [<c015d33e>] __free_pages_ok+0x63/0x2f3
  [<c015d5f2>] __free_pages+0x24/0x26
  [<c05c70ea>] __free_pages_bootmem+0x5f/0x63
  [<c05c57c9>] free_all_bootmem_core+0xcd/0x1a4
  [<c05c58ad>] free_all_bootmem+0xd/0xf
  [<c05c244c>] mem_init+0x81/0x31b
  [<c05b4639>] start_kernel+0x2af/0x335
  [<00000000>] 0x0
  =======================
Bad page state in process 'swapper'
[...]
  =======================
BUG: spinlock lockup on CPU#0, swapper/0, 00000e28
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G    B   2.6.24-rc7 #1
  [<c0105ff3>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
  [<c0106885>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
  [<c0106b7b>] dump_stack+0x6c/0x72
  [<c024b9a9>] _raw_spin_lock+0xc1/0xe2
  [<c0411d08>] _spin_lock+0x32/0x38
  [<c015d3f9>] __free_pages_ok+0x11e/0x2f3
  [<c015d5f2>] __free_pages+0x24/0x26
  [<c05c70ea>] __free_pages_bootmem+0x5f/0x63
  [<c05c57c9>] free_all_bootmem_core+0xcd/0x1a4
  [<c05c58ad>] free_all_bootmem+0xd/0xf
  [<c05c244c>] mem_init+0x81/0x31b
  [<c05b4639>] start_kernel+0x2af/0x335
  [<00000000>] 0x0
  =======================
[hang]

Booting with > 896 MB works...

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-07 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-28 12:45 kexec refuses to boot latest -mm Dhaval Giani
2007-12-28 12:45 ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-28 14:27 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-12-28 14:27   ` Vivek Goyal
2007-12-29  5:41   ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-29  5:41     ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-31 15:06     ` Vivek Goyal
2007-12-31 15:06       ` Vivek Goyal
2007-12-31 20:22       ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-31 20:22         ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-31 15:08     ` Vivek Goyal
2007-12-31 15:08       ` Vivek Goyal
2008-01-03 19:52       ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-03 19:52         ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-03 21:42         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-01-03 21:42           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-01-04 12:28           ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-04 12:28             ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-04 15:54             ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-04 15:54               ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-06  2:17               ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-06  2:17                 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-06 13:37               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-06 13:37                 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-07  9:18                 ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-07  9:18                   ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-07 10:02                   ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-07 10:02                     ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-04 17:11             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-01-04 17:11               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-31 16:35     ` Vivek Goyal
2007-12-31 16:35       ` Vivek Goyal
2007-12-28 19:54 ` Neil Horman
2007-12-28 19:54   ` Neil Horman
2007-12-29  5:26   ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-29  5:26     ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-07 17:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-07 17:43   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-07 17:53   ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-07 17:53     ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-07 17:58     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-07 17:58       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-07 19:08     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-01-07 19:08       ` crashing on lowmem-only config (was: kexec refuses to boot latest -mm) H. Peter Anvin

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