Re: [PATCH] qdisc oops fix

[jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>]

This is a different problem from previous one posted.

Theres a small window (exposed given that you are provisioning a lot
of qdiscs  and running traffic at the same time) that an incoming packet
interupt will cause the BUG().

GFP_ATOMIC will fix it, but i wonder if it appropriate.

Alexey or Manfred?

cheers,
jamal

PS:- 15mbits is not a lot of traffic ;->

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Catalin BOIE wrote:

> > -       sch = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +       sch = kmalloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC);
> >
> > mysteriously fixes the problem? Could the problem be elsewhere?
> > Can you repost what the issue was? I am not on lk and i just saw the
> > posting on a web page.
>
> With many rules (~5000 classes and ~3500 qdiscs and ~50000 filters)
> the kernel oopses in slab.c:1128.
> It happens on high rates (~15mbit).
> On low rates, doesn't.
>
> Seems that an interrupt come and broke the memory allocation.
>
>
> >>EIP; c0127ab4 <kmem_cache_grow+44/1d8>   <=====
>
> >>EAX; ffffffff <END_OF_CODE+3fd31247/????>
> >>EBX; c12c52c0 <END_OF_CODE+ff6508/????>
> >>EDI; c12c52c0 <END_OF_CODE+ff6508/????>
> >>ESP; ceab1c60 <END_OF_CODE+e7e2ea8/????>
>
> Trace; c0127e0f <kmalloc+eb/110>
> Trace; c01d3cac <qdisc_create_dflt+20/bc>
> Trace; d081ecc7 <END_OF_CODE+1054ff0f/????>
> Trace; c01d5265 <tc_ctl_tclass+1cd/214>
> Trace; d0820600 <END_OF_CODE+10551848/????>
> Trace; c01d27e4 <rtnetlink_rcv+298/3bc>
> Trace; c01d0605 <__neigh_event_send+89/1b4>
> Trace; c01d7cd4 <netlink_data_ready+1c/60>
> Trace; c01d7730 <netlink_unicast+230/278>
> Trace; c01d7b73 <netlink_sendmsg+1fb/20c>
> Trace; c01c79d5 <sock_sendmsg+69/88>
> Trace; c01c8b48 <sys_sendmsg+18c/1e8>
> Trace; c0120010 <map_user_kiobuf+8/f8>
>
>