Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:20:09 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, Nadia.Derbey@bull.net,
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Subject: Re: repeatable slab corruption with LTP msgctl08
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On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:09:10 +0200
Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> wrote:

> Either someone does a set_bit() or your cpu is breaking down.

Well.  It is about ten years old.  But this is the first sign of a
problem and it's always msgctl08.

>  From looking at the the msgctl08 test: it shouldn't produce any races, 
> it just does lots of bulk msgsnd()/msgrcv() operations. Always one 
> thread sends, one thread receives on each queue. It's probably more a 
> scheduler stresstest than anything else.
> 
> Attached is a completely untested patch:
> - add 8 bytes to each slabp struct: This changes the alignment of the 
> bufctl entries.
> - add a hexdump of the redzone bytes.

OK, I'll try that this evening (eight hours hence).

I'll also try increasing /proc/sys/kernel/msgmni under 2.6.25.

> Andrew: how do you log the oops? 
> it might scroll of the screen.

netconsole-to-disk.

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