From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f50.google.com (mail-pa0-f50.google.com [209.85.220.50]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5AC36B00FE for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 14:54:34 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pa0-f50.google.com with SMTP id fb1so144651pad.37 for ; Wed, 06 Nov 2013 11:54:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from psmtp.com ([74.125.245.159]) by mx.google.com with SMTP id yk3si223001pac.273.2013.11.06.11.54.24 for ; Wed, 06 Nov 2013 11:54:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 20:54:17 +0100 From: Andreas Herrmann Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/slub: Switch slub_debug kernel option to early_param to avoid boot panic Message-ID: <20131106195417.GK5661@alberich> References: <20131106184529.GB5661@alberich> <000001422ed8406b-14bef091-eee0-4e0e-bcdd-a8909c605910-000000@email.amazonses.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001422ed8406b-14bef091-eee0-4e0e-bcdd-a8909c605910-000000@email.amazonses.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg , Matt Mackall , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 02:16:33PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, Andreas Herrmann wrote: > > > When I've used slub_debug kernel option (e.g. > > "slub_debug=,skbuff_fclone_cache" or similar) on a debug session I've > > seen a panic like: > > Hmmm.. That looks like its due to some slabs not having names > during early boot. kmem_cache_flags is called with NULL as a parameter. That's because the slub_debug parameter is not evaluated before kmem_cache_flags is called. Older kernels didn't show this problem. I think the sequence of those calls has changed. Not sure what patch set has made that change. > Are you sure that this fixes the issue? Looks like the > kmem_cache_flag function should fail regardless of how early you set it. > > AFAICT the right fix would be: That would avoid the panic but I guess it won't enable slub debugging. However I'll test this. Andreas > Subject: slub: Handle NULL parameter in kmem_cache_flags > > kmem_cache_flags may be called with NULL parameter during early boot. > Skip the test in that case. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter > > Index: linux/mm/slub.c > =================================================================== > --- linux.orig/mm/slub.c 2013-10-15 13:55:44.000000000 -0500 > +++ linux/mm/slub.c 2013-11-06 13:09:21.810583134 -0600 > @@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@ static unsigned long kmem_cache_flags(un > /* > * Enable debugging if selected on the kernel commandline. > */ > - if (slub_debug && (!slub_debug_slabs || > + if (slub_debug && name && (!slub_debug_slabs || > !strncmp(slub_debug_slabs, name, strlen(slub_debug_slabs)))) > flags |= slub_debug; > > > -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org