Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761087AbXJDVky (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 17:40:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757694AbXJDVkq (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 17:40:46 -0400 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.152]:45616 "EHLO e34.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754597AbXJDVko (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 17:40:44 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc9: Oops in cache_alloc_refill() mm/slab.c From: Badari Pulavarty To: Valerie Clement Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <4705113A.7030908@bull.net> References: <4705113A.7030908@bull.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:43:51 -0700 Message-Id: <1191534231.6106.99.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3910 Lines: 79 On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 18:13 +0200, Valerie Clement wrote: > While running ffsb tests on my ext4 filesystem, I got an Oops in > cache_alloc_refill(). > I turned on SLAB debugging and here is the message I got: > > slab: Internal list corruption detected in cache 'buffer_head'(30), > slabp ffff81007e100100(1515870810). Hexdump: slabp->inuse = 1515870810 looks bogus. Is this easily reproducible ? What tests are you running through ffsb ? > 000: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a b8 23 34 7e 00 81 ff ff > 010: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a > 020: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a > 030: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a > 040: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a > 050: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a > 060: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a a5 > 070: c0 88 56 63 c5 56 41 d8 f1 37 4a 80 ff ff ff ff > 080: c0 88 56 63 c5 56 41 d8 80 33 53 7d 00 81 ff ff > 090: e8 25 60 7d 00 81 ff ff 68 cb 3b 01 00 81 ff ff > 0a0: 18 68 50 7d 00 81 ff ff > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > kernel BUG at /home/clementv/src/linux-2.6.23-rc9/mm/slab.c:2923! > invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP > CPU 2 > Modules linked in: qla2xxx > Pid: 4041, comm: ffsb Not tainted 2.6.23-rc9 #2 > RIP: 0010:[] [] check_slabp+0xb5/0xc1 > RSP: 0018:ffff8100774bb958 EFLAGS: 00010096 > RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff81007e100100 RCX: 0000000000006d20 > RDX: 00000000ffffffff RSI: 0000000000000046 RDI: ffff81007e347280 > RBP: 00000000000000a8 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: ffffffff8060bb10 > R10: 00000000000ae468 R11: 0000000500000002 R12: 00000000000000a8 > R13: ffff81007e347280 R14: ffff81007e347280 R15: 0000000000000002 > FS: 0000000041802950(0063) GS:ffff81007e0c4728(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b > CR2: 000000005f83d00c CR3: 0000000078149000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 > Process ffsb (pid: 4041, threadinfo ffff8100774ba000, task ffff81007dbdc7a0) > Stack: 000000000000000d 000000000000000e ffff81007e100100 ffff81007e342398 > ffff81007e078488 ffffffff80277069 0000000000008050 ffff81007e347280 > 0000000000008050 0000000000000246 ffffffff80299539 fffffffffffff000 > Call Trace: > [] cache_alloc_refill+0xc8/0x23f > [] alloc_buffer_head+0x14/0x45 > [] kmem_cache_alloc+0x94/0xe9 > [] alloc_buffer_head+0x14/0x45 > [] alloc_page_buffers+0x38/0xd5 > [] create_empty_buffers+0x14/0x9b > [] __block_prepare_write+0x7c/0x45b > [] ext4_get_block+0x0/0x139 > [] block_prepare_write+0x1a/0x25 > [] ext4_prepare_write+0xaf/0x175 > [] generic_file_buffered_write+0x288/0x631 > [] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x33f/0x3a9 > [] enqueue_entity+0x17c/0x1a3 > [] generic_file_aio_write+0x61/0xc1 > [] __check_preempt_curr_fair+0x56/0x76 > [] ext4_file_write+0x16/0x91 > [] do_sync_write+0xc9/0x10c > [] file_move+0x1d/0x4c > [] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e > [] do_filp_open+0x2a/0x38 > [] poison_obj+0x26/0x30 > [] vfs_write+0xad/0x136 > [] sys_write+0x45/0x6e > [] system_call+0x7e/0x83 > > > Valérie - 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/