From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: caiqian@redhat.com
Cc: graff.yang@gmail.com, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
kexec <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>,
dhowells@redhat.com, sonic.adi@gmail.com,
Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>,
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix kvm kdump regression
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:59:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C91CE6E.5030500@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1301046921.1075601284613078206.JavaMail.root@zmail06.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
On 09/16/2010 06:57 AM, caiqian@redhat.com wrote:
> 020ec6537aa65c18e9084c568d7b94727f2026fd introduced a regression that an empty vmcore was generated during kdump on a kvm guest.
> ioremap: invalid physical address db74000000000000
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:83 __ioremap_caller+0x307/0x380()
> Hardware name: KVM
> Modules linked in:
> Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.36-rc2-mm1+ #2
> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff8105f48f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
> [<ffffffff8103052e>] ? copy_oldmem_page+0x4e/0xc0
> [<ffffffff8105f4ea>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
> [<ffffffff8103f0a7>] __ioremap_caller+0x307/0x380
> [<ffffffff8103f1f7>] ioremap_nocache+0x17/0x20
> [<ffffffff8103052e>] copy_oldmem_page+0x4e/0xc0
> [<ffffffff811af4ca>] read_from_oldmem+0x7a/0xb0
> [<ffffffff81c4f70b>] merge_note_headers_elf64.clone.1+0x6c/0x21f
> [<ffffffff8103056e>] ? copy_oldmem_page+0x8e/0xc0
> [<ffffffff811af4ca>] ? read_from_oldmem+0x7a/0xb0
> [<ffffffff81c4fa5b>] vmcore_init+0x19d/0x396
> [<ffffffff81c4f8be>] ? vmcore_init+0x0/0x396
> [<ffffffff81002053>] do_one_initcall+0x43/0x190
> [<ffffffff81c278ab>] kernel_init+0x2a0/0x330
> [<ffffffff8100be84>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
> [<ffffffff81c2760b>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x330
> [<ffffffff8100be80>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10
> ---[ end trace 93d72a36b9146f22 ]---
> Kdump: vmcore not initialized
>
> This patch fixed it by reverting a chunk of the above commit and 9983b6f0cf8263e51bcf4c8a9dc0c1ef175b3c60 which is based on it.
>
> Signed-off-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Sorry about the delay but I'm prepping a debug patch. Let's root
cause and see if it can be fixed without reverting it as there are
further changes which depend on the commit and we'll have to hunt it
down anyway.
Thanks.
--
tejun
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2010-09-16 4:57 ` [PATCH] fix kvm kdump regression caiqian
2010-09-16 7:59 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
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