From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D87CF6B0012 for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 02:20:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 23:19:48 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 36192] New: Kernel panic when boot the 2.6.39+ kernel based off of 2.6.32 kernel Message-Id: <20110529231948.e1439ce5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, qcui@redhat.com, Daisuke Nishimura , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Li Zefan (switched to email. Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the bugzilla web interface). On Mon, 30 May 2011 02:38:33 GMT bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36192 > > Summary: Kernel panic when boot the 2.6.39+ kernel based off of > 2.6.32 kernel > Product: Memory Management > Version: 2.5 > Kernel Version: 2.6.39+ > Platform: All > OS/Version: Linux > Tree: Mainline > Status: NEW > Severity: normal > Priority: P1 > Component: Page Allocator > AssignedTo: akpm@linux-foundation.org > ReportedBy: qcui@redhat.com > Regression: Yes > > > Created an attachment (id=60012) > --> (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=60012) > kernel panic console output > > When I updated the kernel from 2.6.32 to 2.6.39+ on a server with AMD > Magny-Cours CPU, the server can not boot the 2.6.39+ kernel successfully. The > console ouput showed 'Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle > task!' I have tried to set the kernel parameter idle=poll in the grub file. It > still failed to reboot due to the same error. But it can reboot successfully on > the server with Intel CPU. The full console output is attached. > > Steps to reproduce: > 1. install the 2.6.32 kernel > 2. compile and install the kernel 2.6.39+ > 3. reboot > hm, this is not good. Might be memcg-related? > BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000001c08 > IP: [] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x7c/0x1f0 > PGD 0 > Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP > last sysfs file: > CPU 0 > Modules linked in: > > Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.39+ #1 AMD DRACHMA/DRACHMA > RIP: 0010:[] [] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x7c/0x1f0 > RSP: 0000:ffffffff81a01e48 EFLAGS: 00010246 > RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 > RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: 00000000000002d0 > RBP: ffffffff81a01ea8 R08: ffffffff81c03680 R09: 0000000000000000 > R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 00000000000002d0 > R13: 0000000000001c00 R14: ffffffff81a01fa8 R15: 0000000000000000 > FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880437800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b > CR2: 0000000000001c08 CR3: 0000000001a03000 CR4: 00000000000006b0 > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 > Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff81a00000, task ffffffff81a0b020) > Stack: > 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffff81a01eb8 000002d000000008 > ffffffff00000020 ffffffff81a01ec8 ffffffff81a01e88 0000000000000008 > 0000000000100000 0000000000000000 ffffffff81a01fa8 0000000000093cf0 > Call Trace: > [] alloc_pages_exact_nid+0x5f/0xc0 > [] alloc_page_cgroup+0x2a/0x80 > [] init_section_page_cgroup+0x8e/0x110 > [] page_cgroup_init+0x6e/0xa7 > [] start_kernel+0x2ae/0x366 > [] x86_64_start_reservations+0x131/0x135 > [] x86_64_start_kernel+0x103/0x112 > Code: e0 08 83 f8 01 44 89 e0 19 db c1 e8 13 f7 d3 83 e0 01 83 e3 02 09 c3 8b 05 22 e5 af 00 44 21 e0 a8 10 89 45 bc 0f 85 c4 00 00 00 > 83 7d 08 00 0f 84 dd 00 00 00 65 4c 8b 34 25 c0 cc 00 00 41 > RIP [] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x7c/0x1f0 > RSP > CR2: 0000000000001c08 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org