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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Something very strange on x86_64 2.6.X kernels
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:19:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41F0206C.5040605@cosmosbay.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050120130848.14a92990.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:

> Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> wrote:

>>
>>Every time the crash occurs when one thread is using some ram located at 
>>virtual address 0xffffe6xx
> 
> 
> What does "using" mean?  Is the program executing from that location?

No, the program text is located between 0x00100000 and 0x001c6000  (no 
shared libs)

0xffffe6xx is READ|WRITE data, mapped on Hugetlb fs

extract from /proc/pid/maps
ff400000-100400000 rw-s 82000000 00:0b 12960938 
    /huge/file

> 
> Interesting.  IIRC, opterons will very occasionally (and incorrectly) take
> a fault when performing a prefetch against a dud pointer.  The kernel will
> fix that up.  At a guess, I'd say tha the fixup code isn't doing the right
> thing when the faulting EIP is in the vsyscall page.

Maybe, but I want to say that in this case, the address 'prefetched' is 
valid (ie mapped read/write by the program, on a huge page too)

Thanks
Eric Dumazet


  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-20 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-19 23:13 COMMAND_LINE_SIZE increasing in 2.6.11-rc1-bk6 Janos Farkas
2005-01-20  4:21 ` Chris Bruner
2005-01-20 16:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-20 16:40   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-20 16:48   ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-20 20:53     ` Something very strange on x86_64 2.6.X kernels Eric Dumazet
2005-01-20 21:08       ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-20 21:19         ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2005-01-21 16:26       ` Petr Vandrovec
2005-01-21 16:49         ` Eric Dumazet
2005-01-21 18:30           ` Petr Vandrovec
2005-01-22  1:54         ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-22  2:14           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-21  6:58     ` COMMAND_LINE_SIZE increasing in 2.6.11-rc1-bk6 Catalin(ux aka Dino) BOIE
2005-01-21  7:11       ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-21 17:46         ` Matt Domsch
2005-01-21 19:05           ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-02-07  6:57         ` Werner Almesberger
2005-02-12 13:54           ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-02-12 14:51             ` Werner Almesberger
2005-02-12 15:17               ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-02-14  5:49                 ` Werner Almesberger
2005-02-14  7:36                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-02-14  6:15       ` Adam Sulmicki

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