From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <17719.1849.245776.4501@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:03:53 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: kernel BUG in __cache_alloc_node at linux-2.6.git/mm/slab.c:3177! In-Reply-To: References: <1160764895.11239.14.camel@farscape> <1160769226.11239.22.camel@farscape> <1160773040.11239.28.camel@farscape> <1161026409.31903.15.camel@farscape> <1161031821.31903.28.camel@farscape> <17717.50596.248553.816155@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <17718.39522.456361.987639@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Christoph Lameter writes: > Here is patch to add some printk to try to figure out what is going on. > Run with this and send me the console output leading up to the failure. Here... Thanks for your help on this. I'll poke a bit further. Linux version 2.6.19-rc2-test (paulus@drongo) (gcc version 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-15)) #37 SMP Thu Oct 19 14:05:18 EST 2006 [boot]0012 Setup Arch No ramdisk, default root is /dev/sda2 EEH: PCI Enhanced I/O Error Handling Enabled PPC64 nvram contains 7168 bytes Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 -> 524288 Normal 524288 -> 524288 early_node_map[3] active PFN ranges 1: 0 -> 32768 0: 32768 -> 278528 1: 278528 -> 524288 [boot]0015 Setup Done Built 2 zonelists. Total pages: 513760 Kernel command line: root=/dev/sdc3 [boot]0020 XICS Init [boot]0021 XICS Done PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes) Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) freeing bootmem node 0 freeing bootmem node 1 Memory: 2046852k/2097152k available (5512k kernel code, 65056k reserved, 2204k data, 554k bss, 256k init) Get cache descritor __cache_alloc __cache_alloc_node 0 fallback_alloc __cache_alloc_node 0 __cache_alloc_node 1 kernel BUG in __cache_alloc_node at /home/paulus/kernel/powerpc/mm/slab.c:3185!