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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, bryan.christ@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 35762] New: Kernel panics on do_raw_spin_lock()
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 16:50:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110601165026.16ddbcbb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-35762-10286@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/>

On Tue, 24 May 2011 20:06:01 GMT
bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:

> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35762
> 
>            Summary: Kernel panics on do_raw_spin_lock()
>            Product: Memory Management
>            Version: 2.5
>     Kernel Version: 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc14.x86_64
>           Platform: All
>         OS/Version: Linux
>               Tree: Mainline
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: high
>           Priority: P1
>          Component: Other
>         AssignedTo: akpm@linux-foundation.org
>         ReportedBy: bryan.christ@gmail.com
>         Regression: No
> 
> 
> Kernel seems to frequently panic with RIP at do_raw_spin_lock().  I
> assume this might be vma related since the trace often implicates
> vma_merge() and friends.
> 
> Screenshots of panic:
> 
> http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=hnd1dedna9bed65
> http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=n86366d44i7mlx4
> http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=0sgzfd91dvl3jhl
> http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=zwly9x5c4zg28dn

hm, those photos aren't terribly useful.  They seem to be pointing at
the compaction code.

Maybe using the pause_on_oops kernel command line option
(Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt) will prevent the frist part of
the first oops from scrolling off the screen?

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       reply	other threads:[~2011-06-01 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-35762-10286@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2011-06-01 23:50 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-06-02 11:23   ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 35762] New: Kernel panics on do_raw_spin_lock() Mel Gorman

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