Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB include file dependency fixes + kmemtrace updates

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> Please pull the latest kmemtrace-for-linus git tree from:
> 
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git kmemtrace-for-linus
> 
> We kept this topic separate from the main tracing tree due to the 
> unexpectedly wide and messy-looking scope of the fixes Pekka needed 
> to do to untangle various slab*.h, rcu*.h and fs.h dependency 
> chains.

I'm not sure this is the tree that brings in the problem, but my wife's 
Mac Mini won't boot any more, and it looks like some slub or percpu issue, 
so regardless, roughly the right people are involved in the cc here 
already.

I get odd NUL page faults or GP faults in either __kmalloc, 
__kmalloc_track_caller or kmem_cache_alloc, and they all seem to happen on 
roughly the same code, ie it's something like this:

        movq    752(%r13,%rax,8), %rdx  # <variable>.cpu_slab, c
        movl    24(%rdx), %eax  # <variable>.objsize,
        movl    %eax, -44(%rbp) #, objsize
        movq    (%rdx), %r12    # <variable>.freelist, object
        testq   %r12, %r12      # object
        je      .L617   #,
        mov     20(%rdx), %eax  # <variable>.offset, <variable>.offset
->      movq    (%r12,%rax,8), %rax     #* object, tmp79
        movq    %rax, (%rdx)    # tmp79, <variable>.freelist

where that arrow points to the instruction that seems to be faulting.

I think it's this code:

                object = c->freelist;
                c->freelist = object[c->offset];

and that "object[c->offset]" in particular.

I have not tried to bisect it yet, and I'll do that, but if this sounds 
familiar to anybody, please holler before I waste a lot of time on it.

		Linus