From: Andy Whitcroft <andyw@uk.ibm.com>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: haveblue@us.ibm.com, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.15-rc4 panic in __nr_to_section() with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:05:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43976AA4.2060606@uk.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1133995060.21841.56.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> I getting a panic while doing "cat /proc/<pid>/smaps" on
> a process. I debugged a little to find out that faulting
> IP is in _nr_to_section() - seems to be getting somehow
> called by pte_offset_map_lock() from smaps_pte_range
> (which show_smaps) calls.
>
> Any ideas on why or how to debug further ?
>From dave's call graph I'd ask the question whether we should be calling
pfn_valid() before pfn_to_page(). When I reviewed the proposed
pfn_to_page() implementation I only recall one use and that already had
the pfn_valid() in it. I'll review -rc4 in the morning.
-apw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-07 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-07 22:37 2.6.15-rc4 panic in __nr_to_section() with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM Badari Pulavarty
2005-12-07 22:52 ` Dave Hansen
2005-12-07 23:05 ` Andy Whitcroft [this message]
2005-12-07 23:22 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-12-07 23:34 ` Dave Hansen
2005-12-08 0:48 ` Dave Hansen
2005-12-08 16:07 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-12-08 19:15 ` Dave Hansen
2005-12-08 19:33 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-08 19:47 ` Dave Hansen
2005-12-08 19:53 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-12-08 23:48 ` David Gibson
2005-12-09 0:16 ` Dave Hansen
2005-12-12 16:19 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-12-12 21:28 ` Dave Hansen
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