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From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dave@treblig.org>
To: Marcin Gibula <m.gibula@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aarcange@redhat.com
Subject: Re: 3.16.1 - general protection fault
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:50:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140930145055.GA24978@gallifrey> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140924201827.GA30643@gallifrey>

* Dr. David Alan Gilbert (dave@treblig.org) wrote:
> * Marcin Gibula (m.gibula@gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> Hi Marcin,
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've been playing with 3.16 kernel on my test machine as a KVM
> > hypervisor and encountered the following crash twice (almost identical
> > backtraces).
> > 
> > Sep 24 09:39:31 dev4 kernel: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > This machine is serving as NFS client and KVM hypervisor. I'm still
> > not sure how to trigger it reliably (right now, I just have to run
> > ubuntu instalation in VM guest multiple times and sometimes it
> > triggers).
> > 
> > Attaching .config, slub.s and disassembled __kmalloc_node_track_caller function.
> 
> Yes, I hit something similar:
> 
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-nfs/msg46047.html 'nfs: disallow duplicate pages in pgio page vectors'
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-nfs/msg46048.html 'nfs: can_coalesce_requests must enforce contiguity'
> 
> seem to stop the GPF's/crashes, although there's still something else
> going on with a corruption I'm seeing every so often.

And that 'something else' seems to be fixed by:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=141208464631105&w=2

Enjoy,

Dave
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-30 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-24 16:44 3.16.1 - general protection fault Marcin Gibula
2014-09-24 20:18 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-09-30 14:50   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
2014-10-01  8:09     ` Marcin Gibula

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