Re: KVM induced panic on 2.6.38[2367] & 2.6.39

Brad Campbell
2011-06-01T06:31:04Z

On 01/06/11 12:52, Hugh Dickins wrote:

>
> I guess Brad could try SLUB debugging, boot with slub_debug=P
> for poisoning perhaps; though it might upset alignments and
> drive the problem underground. Or see if the same happens
> with SLAB instead of SLUB.

Not much use I'm afraid.
This is all I get in the log

[ 3161.300073]
=============================================================================
[ 3161.300147] BUG kmalloc-512: Freechain corrupt

The qemu process is then frozen, unkillable but reported in state "R"

13881 ? R 3:27 /usr/bin/qemu -S -M pc-0.13 -enable-kvm -m
1024 -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -nam

The machine then progressively dies until it's frozen solid with no
further error messages.

I stupidly forgot to do an alt-sysrq-t prior to doing an alt-sysrq-b,
but at least it responded to that.

On the bright side I can reproduce it at will.