Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966796AbXEHRXr (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 13:23:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966392AbXEHRXq (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 13:23:46 -0400 Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.204.235]:65081 "EHLO qb-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965796AbXEHRXp (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 13:23:45 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent:sender; b=QgxYHiVqW7yqD9cU1+c3VO8xD+qJDl0X0SVi1NbQkKpigsyQuGKzsJgwjgK2ChYaMIA+tiBC7RKopE8D5jKqbeiijsidwe9ivDsCljpI5JaqQ6d36kfh0nQTQXvPxyBtFS/SL7Gi7UyUgw8HNEeKJxao3JjcTUeX5x9uebxsPK4= Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 19:22:33 +0200 From: Frederik Deweerdt To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbeulich@novell.com, ak@suse.de Subject: kmem_cache_init failure (was Re: 2.6.21-mm1) Message-ID: <20070508172233.GA11683@slug> References: <20070505014955.8f3990b5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070505014955.8f3990b5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 895 Lines: 31 On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 01:49:55AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21/2.6.21-mm1/ > Hi all, My computer fails early at boot with a stack along the lines of: kmem_cache_zalloc kmem_cache_create kmem_cache_init start_kernel eip is at cache_calloc_refill+0x3e1 which is the slabp->colouroff = colouroff; in alloc_slabmgmt() I've bisected it down to the x86_64-mm-cpa-kerneltext.patch and the + if (!pte_present(*kpte)) + return 0; part in particular. Dotconfig and cpuinfo are available at http://fdeweerdt.free.fr/kmem_prob/. Any ideas? Regards, Frederik - 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/