Re: x86-64 bad pmds in 2.6.11.6

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 04:44:55PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> [apologies to Andi for getting this twice, I goofed the l-k address
>  the first time]
> 
>  
>  I arrived at the office today to find my workstation had this spew
>  in its dmesg buffer..

Looks like random memory corruption to me.

Can you enable slab debugging etc.?

>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017438(00000038a5500a88).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017440(0000000000000003).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017448(00007ffffffff73b).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017450(00007ffffffff73c).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017458(00007ffffffff73d).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017468(00007ffffffff73e).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017470(00007ffffffff73f).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017478(00007ffffffff740).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017480(00007ffffffff741).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017488(00007ffffffff742).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017490(00007ffffffff743).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017498(00007ffffffff744).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0174a0(00007ffffffff745).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0174a8(00007ffffffff746).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0174b0(00007ffffffff747).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0174b8(00007ffffffff748).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0174c0(00007ffffffff749).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0174c8(00007ffffffff74a).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0174d0(00007ffffffff74b).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0174d8(00007ffffffff74c).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0174e0(00007ffffffff74d).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0174e8(00007ffffffff74e).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0174f0(00007ffffffff74f).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0174f8(00007ffffffff750).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017500(00007ffffffff751).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017508(00007ffffffff752).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017510(00007ffffffff753).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017518(00007ffffffff754).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017520(00007ffffffff755).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017528(00007ffffffff756).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017530(00007ffffffff757).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017538(00007ffffffff758).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017540(00007ffffffff759).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017548(00007ffffffff75a).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017550(00007ffffffff75b).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017558(00007ffffffff75c).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017560(00007ffffffff75d).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017568(00007ffffffff75e).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017570(00007ffffffff75f).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017578(00007ffffffff760).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017580(00007ffffffff761).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017588(00007ffffffff762).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017590(00007ffffffff763).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017598(00007ffffffff764).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0175a0(00007ffffffff765).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0175a8(00007ffffffff766).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0175b0(00007ffffffff767).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0175b8(00007ffffffff768).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0175c0(00007ffffffff769).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0175c8(00007ffffffff76a).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0175d0(00007ffffffff76b).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0175d8(00007ffffffff76c).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0175e0(00007ffffffff76d).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0175e8(00007ffffffff76e).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0175f0(00007ffffffff76f).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0175f8(00007ffffffff770).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017600(00007ffffffff771).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017608(00007ffffffff772).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017610(00007ffffffff773).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017618(00007ffffffff774).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017628(0000000000000010).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017630(00000000078bfbff).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017638(0000000000000006).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017640(0000000000001000).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017648(0000000000000011).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017650(0000000000000064).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017658(0000000000000003).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017660(0000000000400040).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017668(0000000000000004).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017670(0000000000000038).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017678(0000000000000005).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017680(0000000000000008).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017688(0000000000000007).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017698(0000000000000008).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0176a8(0000000000000009).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0176b0(0000000000403840).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0176b8(000000000000000b).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0176c0(00000000000001f4).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0176c8(000000000000000c).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0176d0(00000000000001f4).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0176d8(000000000000000d).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0176e0(00000000000001f4).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0176e8(000000000000000e).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0176f0(00000000000001f4).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b0176f8(0000000000000017).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017708(000000000000000f).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017710(00007ffffffff734).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017730(5f36387800000000).
>  mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd ffff81004b017738(0000000000003436).
>  
>  
> I've not done a memtest86 run on this (yet), but I'll be very
> surprised if this is bad RAM, especially considering other
> folks also seem to have hit the same thing when they moved
> to 2.6.11.  (My workstation ran 2.6.9/2.6.10 without incident
> previously).
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/11/42 for example lists a similar
> dump (though obviously differing addresses).
> Googling around reveals a bunch of other similar dumps.

Yes I saw them, but I supposed it is some driver going bad.
If you want you can collect hardware data and see if there is
a common driver.

-Andi