From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
To: Michail Bachmann <mb@emeraldcity.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:775
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:29:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100201102935.GA21053@csn.ul.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201001292302.04105.mb@emeraldcity.de>
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:01:57PM +0100, Michail Bachmann wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 03:25:23PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Michail Bachmann wrote:
> > > > > [ 48.505381] kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:775!
> > > >
> > > > Somehow nodes got mixed up or the lookup tables for pages / zones are
> > > > not giving the right node numbers.
> > >
> > > Agreed. On this type of machine, I'm not sure how that could happen
> > > short of struct page information being corrupted. The range should
> > > always be aligned to a pageblock boundary and I cannot see how that
> > > would cross a zone boundary on this machine.
> > >
> > > Does this machine pass memtest?
> >
> > I ran one pass with memtest86 without errors before posting this bug, but I
> > can let it run "all tests" for a while just to be sure it is not caused by
> > broken hw.
>
> Please disregard this bug report. After running memtest for more than 10 hours
> it found a memory error.
I'm sorry to hear it but at least the source of the bug is known.
> The funny thing is, linux found it much faster...
>
It could be that your power supply is slightly too inefficient and the
errors only occur when all cores are active or all disks - something
Linux might do easily where as memtest does not necessarily stress the
machine enough for the power drop to happen.
> Thanks for your time.
>
Thanks for testing and getting back to us.
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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-09 21:32 PROBLEM: kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:775 Michail Bachmann
2010-01-12 21:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-18 12:03 ` Mel Gorman
2010-01-21 0:10 ` Michail Bachmann
2010-01-29 22:01 ` Michail Bachmann
2010-02-01 10:29 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
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