From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: [Bug #11313] Plugging HDMI causes "unable to handle kernel paging request" Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:13:21 -0700 Message-ID: <48ADB041.9040806@goop.org> References: <48AB5D17.5030600@goop.org> <48AC3FA4.9080603@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Yinghai Lu , Jack Steiner , Alan Jenkins , Hugh Dickens Rafa=C5=82 Mi=C5=82ecki wrote: > I added full dmesg 5 minutes after adding grepped: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=3D17331 > =20 OK, I think I see the problem (pasted from bugzilla comment): >>>> Some notes as I pick through all the evidence so far: - the crash is specifically because there are reserved bits set in the = pmd - the pmd is b02a00043a6001a3 in both cases - the vaddr is ffff88013a600000 in the first crash, and ffff81013a6d1c00 in the second corresponding to the same large-page pmd mapping of phys page 0x13a60= 0000 - this maps to e820 entry BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140000000 (usable) - the corresponding boot-time mapping is init_memory_mapping 0100000000 - 0140000000 page 2M kernel direct mapping tables up to 140000000 @ b000-11000 ^^^^^^^^^^ addr 100000000 reusing pgd 201880 0000000000202063 last_map_addr: 140000000 end: 140000000 !!! and the memory allocated for this pagetable is: #5 [0000008000 - 000000b000] PGTABLE =3D=3D> [0000008000 - 0= 00000b000] #6 [000000b000 - 000000c000] PGTABLE =3D=3D> [000000b000 - 0= 00000c000] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^= ^^^^^ IOW, it's mapping using b000-11000, but it has only reserved b000 - c00= 0 Also, this is right in the middle of the ISA area, which seems risky. <<<< Bug #11237 shows the same symptom, so I'm pretty confident they're dups= now. J