From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.25-rc2 - Kernel Ooops while running dbench
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:51:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020803030351l2042e9aaqe656ad1610e5efc5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080218045954.50503fb1.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:14:46 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal
<kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > The 2.6.25-rc2 kernel oopses while running dbench on ext3 filesystem
> > mounted with mount -o data=writeback,nobh option on the x86_64 box
> >
> > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
> > IP: [<ffffffff80274972>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x3a/0x6c
> > PGD 1f6860067 PUD 1f5d64067 PMD 0
> > Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
> > CPU 3
> > Modules linked in:
> > Pid: 4271, comm: dbench Not tainted 2.6.25-rc2-autotest #1
> > RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff80274972>] [<ffffffff80274972>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x3a/0x6c
> > RSP: 0000:ffff8101fb041dc8 EFLAGS: 00010246
> > RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff810180033c00 RCX: ffffffff8027b269
> > RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000080d0 RDI: ffffffff80632d70
> > RBP: 00000000000080d0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
> > R10: ffff8101feb36e50 R11: 0000000000000190 R12: 0000000000000001
> > R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8101f8f38000 R15: 00000000ffffff9c
> > FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8101fff0f000(0063) knlGS:00000000f7e41460
> > CS: 0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033
> > CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000001f5620000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> > Process dbench (pid: 4271, threadinfo ffff8101fb040000, task ffff8101fb180000)
> > Stack: 0000000000000001 ffff8101fb041ea8 0000000000000001 ffffffff8027b269
> > ffff8101fb041ea8 ffffffff80281fe8 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
> > ffff8101fb041ea8 00000000ffffff9c 000000000000000b 0000000000000001
> > Call Trace:
> > [<ffffffff8027b269>] get_empty_filp+0x55/0xf9
> > [<ffffffff80281fe8>] __path_lookup_intent_open+0x22/0x8f
> > [<ffffffff80282853>] open_namei+0x86/0x5a7
> > [<ffffffff8027d019>] vfs_stat_fd+0x3c/0x4a
> > [<ffffffff80279ab1>] do_filp_open+0x1c/0x3d
> > [<ffffffff80279c2c>] get_unused_fd_flags+0x79/0x111
> > [<ffffffff80279dce>] do_sys_open+0x46/0xca
> > [<ffffffff80221c82>] ia32_sysret+0x0/0xa
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Looks to me like we broke slab. Christoph is offline until the 27th..
This is probably fixed by:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=00e962c5408b9f2d0bebd2308673fe982cb9a5fe
As this is on the regression list, Kamalesh, can you please confirm
it's fixed now?
Pekka
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[not found] ` <47B6784E.2090401@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-02-18 12:59 ` [BUG] Linux 2.6.25-rc2 - Kernel Ooops while running dbench Andrew Morton
2008-02-18 14:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-18 16:11 ` Frans Pop
2008-03-03 11:51 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2008-03-04 4:03 ` Kamalesh Babulal
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