Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751171AbWAYOHb (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:07:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751172AbWAYOHb (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:07:31 -0500 Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org ([80.68.90.175]:16914 "EHLO hellhawk.shadowen.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751171AbWAYOHb (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:07:31 -0500 Message-ID: <43D785E1.4020708@shadowen.org> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:06:25 +0000 From: Andy Whitcroft User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc1-mm3 References: <20060124232406.50abccd1.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060124232406.50abccd1.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1968 Lines: 50 It seems that something is causing panic's on some of our test beds. At first sight it appears to be something slab related (alloc_slabmgmt). I had a quick look at what had been added in -mm3 (as -mm2 is ok) but the only things that jumped out really didn't want to be backed out. Any suggestions as to what I should try? -apw Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address dfff9010 printing eip: c014dfb7 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP last sysfs file: Modules linked in: CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.16-rc1-mm3-autokern1 #1) EIP is at alloc_slabmgmt+0x3b/0x50 eax: c04335a0 ebx: 00000060 ecx: 00000014 edx: dfff9000 esi: dfff9000 edi: c04335a0 ebp: 00000001 esp: c04b5f20 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo=c04b4000 task=c042e960) Stack: <0>dfff9000 00000000 c014e1a8 c04335a0 dfff9000 00000000 000000d0 00000010 000000d0 c04b4000 c04d52b0 00000001 c04d52a0 c014e3e8 c04335a0 000000d0 00000000 c04d5280 c04b4000 c04335a0 00000202 000000d0 c014e71f c04335a0 Call Trace: cache_grow+0xb1/0x12d cache_alloc_refill+0x1c4/0x206 kmem_cache_alloc+0x77/0x84 kmem_cache_create+0x184/0x5d8 cache_estimate+0x6c/0x8a kmem_cache_init+0x139/0x36d start_kernel+0x109/0x17e Code: d0 00 00 00 00 79 1b ff 74 24 18 ff b0 f0 00 00 00 e8 06 07 00 00 89 c2 58 31 c0 85 d2 59 74 1d eb 09 8d 14 33 03 98 f4 00 00 00 42 10 00 00 00 00 8d 04 33 89 42 0c 89 d0 89 5a 08 5b 5e c3 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/