Re: early exception error

david
2008-12-31T19:05:35Z

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:

> [david@lang.hm - Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:12:12AM -0800]
>> On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>>
>>> [david@lang.hm - Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 05:39:29PM -0800]
>>>> On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> david@lang.hm writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> doing a grep through System.map for the address that appears in the
>>>>>> error returns nothing
>>>>>
>>>>> This might be obvious, but you can't grep directly for these addresses
>>>>> because System.map contains the starting addresses of functions only
>>>>> and normally the reported address is somewhere in the middle of a
>>>>> function. So you instead have to look for the highest number lower or equal
>>>>> the address from the exception.
>>>>
>>>> thanks, this was not obvious to me
>>>>
>>>> the -2 error maps to
>>>>
>>>> ffffffff8099e4c1 T free_bootmem_node
>>>> ffffffff8099e4e5 t alloc_bootmem_core
>>>> ffffffff8099e774 t ___alloc_bootmem_nopanic
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> the first error maps to
>>>>
>>>> ffffffff809c2de4 T free_bootmem_node
>>>> ffffffff809c2e08 t alloc_bootmem_core
>>>> ffffffff809c3097 t ___alloc_bootmem_nopanic
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> so it looks like this is in alloc_bootmem_core in both cases.
>>>>
>>>> David Lang
>>>>
>>>
>>> Along with Andi's proposed earlyprintk=vga I think
>>> bootmem_debug option could be usefull here too.
>>
>> adding bootmem_debug creates so much additonal output that the oops
>> scrolls off the screen (except the last 'paragraph' of it)
>>
>> it looks like it's individual items being allocated (trying to scan it as
>> it scrolled by)
>
> on the picture you sent me i noticed the message
> "Your memory is not aligned you need to rebuild your
> kernel with bigger NODEMAP SIZE shift=20" and then
> srat code complains about "No NUMA code hash function found"
> which looks a bit scary. Btw, could you post this picture
> on some public resource so NUMA people could check it?

http://linux.lang.hm/linux/IMG00030.jpg

I'll try rebuilding with a bigger nodemap size and let you know

David Lang