Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-git18 Kernel oops in sg helpers

[Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:54:36 +0100
> Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:44:20PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 23 2007, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Kernel oops is triggered while running fsx-linux test, followed by cpu softlock
>>>> over the AMD box
>>>>
>>>> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000018 RIP: 
>>>>  [<ffffffff8021f2f6>] gart_map_sg+0x26c/0x406
>>>> PGD 10185b067 PUD 10075b067 PMD 0 
>>>> Oops: 0002 [1] SMP 
>>>> CPU 3 
>>>> Modules linked in:
>>>> Pid: 18676, comm: fsx-linux Not tainted 2.6.23-git18-autokern1 #1
>>>> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8021f2f6>]  [<ffffffff8021f2f6>] gart_map_sg+0x26c/0x406
>>>> RSP: 0000:ffff810181edf948  EFLAGS: 00010002
>>> Can you check where gart_map_sg+0x26c is at? Make sure you have
>>> CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO defined, then do:
>>>
>>> $ gdb vmlinux
>>> $ l *gart_map_sg+0x26c
>> Ok, this problem still seems to be about in 2.6.24-rc1.  Here is the gdb
>> output from that version, the panic (also below) seems the same:
>>
>> (gdb) l *gart_map_sg+0x26c
>> 0xffffffff8022011e is in gart_map_sg (arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c:433).
>> 428                     goto error;
>> 429             out++;
>> 430             flush_gart();
>> 431             if (out < nents) {
>> 432                     sgmap = sg_next(sgmap);
>> 433                     sgmap->dma_length = 0;
>> 434             }
>> 435             return out;
>> 436
>> 437     error:
>>
>> So it seems sg_next has returned 0.
> 
> Have you tried this?
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119317981406073&w=2
> -
Hi,
Thanks, this patch solves the kernel oops.
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Thanks & Regards,
Kamalesh Babulal,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM, ISTL.