From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: WARNING: at mm/slub.c:3357, kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3413 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:25:11 +0100 Message-ID: <1321953911.2474.1.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> References: <20111121161036.GA1679@x4.trippels.de> <1321894353.10470.19.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> <1321895706.10470.21.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> <20111121173556.GA1673@x4.trippels.de> <1321900743.10470.31.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> <20111121185215.GA1673@x4.trippels.de> <20111121195113.GA1678@x4.trippels.de> <1321907275.13860.12.camel@pasglop> <20111122084513.GA1688@x4.trippels.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Christoph Lameter , Christian Kujau , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , "Alex,Shi" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Pekka Enberg , Matt Mackall , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Tejun Heo To: Markus Trippelsdorf Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20111122084513.GA1688@x4.trippels.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Le mardi 22 novembre 2011 =C3=A0 09:45 +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf a =C3=A9= crit : > On 2011.11.21 at 21:18 -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Christian Kujau wrote: > >=20 > > > On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 at 07:27, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Note that I hit a similar looking crash (sorry, I couldn't captur= e a > > > > backtrace back then) on a PowerMac G5 (ppc64) while doing a large= rsync > > > > transfer yesterday with -rc2-something (cfcfc9ec) and > > > > Christian Kujau (CC) seems to be able to reproduce something simi= lar on > > > > some other ppc platform (Christian, what is your setup ?) > > > > > > I seem to hit it with heavy disk & cpu IO is in progress on this Po= werBook > > > G4. Full dmesg & .config: http://nerdbynature.de/bits/3.2.0-rc1/oop= s/ > > > > > > I've enabled some debug options and now it really points to slub.c:= 2166 > >=20 >=20 > I sometimes see the following pattern. Is this a false positive? >=20 >=20 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D > BUG anon_vma: Redzone overwritten > -----------------------------------------------------------------------= ------ >=20 > INFO: 0xffff88020f347c80-0xffff88020f347c87. First byte 0xbb instead of= 0xcc > INFO: Allocated in anon_vma_fork+0x51/0x140 age=3D1 cpu=3D2 pid=3D1826 > __slab_alloc.constprop.70+0x1ac/0x1e8 > kmem_cache_alloc+0x12e/0x160 > anon_vma_fork+0x51/0x140 > dup_mm+0x1f2/0x4a0 > copy_process+0xd10/0xf70 > do_fork+0x100/0x2b0 > sys_clone+0x23/0x30 > stub_clone+0x13/0x20 > INFO: Freed in __put_anon_vma+0x54/0xa0 age=3D0 cpu=3D1 pid=3D1827 > __slab_free+0x33/0x2d0 > kmem_cache_free+0x10e/0x120 > __put_anon_vma+0x54/0xa0 > unlink_anon_vmas+0x12f/0x1c0 > free_pgtables+0x83/0xe0 > exit_mmap+0xee/0x140 > mmput+0x43/0xf0 > flush_old_exec+0x33f/0x630 > load_elf_binary+0x340/0x1960 > search_binary_handler+0x8f/0x180 > do_execve+0x2d3/0x370 > sys_execve+0x42/0x70 > stub_execve+0x6c/0xc0 > INFO: Slab 0xffffea00083cd1c0 objects=3D10 used=3D9 fp=3D0xffff88020f34= 7ab8 flags=3D0x4000000000000081 > INFO: Object 0xffff88020f347c40 @offset=3D3136 fp=3D0xffff88020f347ab8 One thing you could do is to disable slub merge, with following additional boot param : "slub_nomerge=3D1" -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter= .ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org