Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754576Ab1EaKhy (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2011 06:37:54 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:60758 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754070Ab1EaKhw (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2011 06:37:52 -0400 Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 12:38:08 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Brad Campbell Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm , Hugh Dickins , Andrea Arcangeli , Izik Eidus Subject: Re: KVM induced panic on 2.6.38[2367] & 2.6.39 Message-ID: <20110531103808.GA6915@eferding.osrc.amd.com> Mail-Followup-To: Borislav Petkov , Brad Campbell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm , Hugh Dickins , Andrea Arcangeli , Izik Eidus References: <4DE44333.9000903@fnarfbargle.com> <20110531054729.GA16852@liondog.tnic> <4DE4B432.1090203@fnarfbargle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DE4B432.1090203@fnarfbargle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1055 Lines: 32 On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 05:26:10PM +0800, Brad Campbell wrote: > On 31/05/11 13:47, Borislav Petkov wrote: > >Looks like a KSM issue. Disabling CONFIG_KSM should at least stop your > >machine from oopsing. > > > >Adding linux-mm. > > > > I initially thought that, so the second panic was produced with KSM > disabled from boot. > > echo 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run > > If you still think that compiling ksm out of the kernel will prevent > it then I'm willing to give it a go. Ok, from looking at the code, when KSM inits, it starts the ksm kernel thread and it looks like your oops comes from the function that is run in the kernel thread - ksm_scan_thread. So even if you disable it from sysfs, it runs at least once. Let's add some more people to Cc and see what happens :). -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. -- 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/