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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: vma corruption in today's -git
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:26:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110329042652.GA570@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinOQ1yXqJJVo=k9YSM=xG2Fg2GSAE8z2O3dGsME@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:19:01PM +0800, Américo Wang wrote:
 > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
 > > Running a kernel that I built from a git pull from this afternoon,
 > > I ran a barrage of stress tests, including some of the new syscall fuzzing
 > > work that I've been working on.  Everything seemed just fine, except that
 > > after I had stopped running everything, loadavg was still at 6, with
 > > top showing kworker processes running at high % of cpu.
 > >
 > > I ran perf top, and got this ..
 > >
 > >  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffffffffff3
 > >  IP: [<ffffffff8118d3e9>] vma_stop.clone.3+0x18/0x33
 > 
 > Should be fixed by:
 > 
 > commit 76597cd31470fa130784c78fadb4dab2e624a723
 > Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
 > Date:   Sun Mar 27 19:09:29 2011 -0700
 > 
 >     proc: fix oops on invalid /proc/<pid>/maps access

excellent, thanks. I'll repull and try again.

	Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-29  4:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-29  4:09 vma corruption in today's -git Dave Jones
2011-03-29  4:19 ` Américo Wang
2011-03-29  4:26   ` Dave Jones [this message]
2011-03-29  4:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31  3:09   ` excessive kworker activity when idle. (was Re: vma corruption in today's -git) Dave Jones
2011-03-31  3:34     ` Dave Jones
2011-03-31  3:44       ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31  4:08         ` Dave Jones
2011-03-31 15:53           ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 16:21             ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 21:38               ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 14:59         ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-03-31  3:37     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31  3:55       ` Dave Jones
2011-03-31  5:32         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 14:21           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-03-31 14:58           ` Dave Jones
2011-03-31 15:03             ` Dave Jones
2011-03-31 15:09               ` Dave Jones
2011-03-31 15:45                 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 15:25               ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 15:49                 ` Dave Jones
2011-03-31 15:58                   ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 16:13                     ` Dave Jones
2011-03-31  6:56       ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-31 10:37         ` [PATCH] workqueue: document debugging tricks Florian Mickler
2011-03-31 11:41           ` Tejun Heo

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