From: Kamalesh Babulal Subject: Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.25-rc2 - Kernel Ooops while running dbench Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:33:02 +0530 Message-ID: <47CCC9F6.1080601@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <47B6784E.2090401@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20080218045954.50503fb1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <84144f020803030351l2042e9aaqe656ad1610e5efc5@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft , Balbir Singh , Christoph Lameter , linux-mm@kvack.org To: Pekka Enberg Return-path: Received: from E23SMTP01.au.ibm.com ([202.81.18.162]:46869 "EHLO e23smtp01.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751803AbYCDED0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 23:03:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <84144f020803030351l2042e9aaqe656ad1610e5efc5@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:14:46 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal > wrote: >> > The 2.6.25-rc2 kernel oopses while running dbench on ext3 filesystem >> > mounted with mount -o data=writeback,nobh option on the x86_64 box >> > >> > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 >> > IP: [] kmem_cache_alloc+0x3a/0x6c >> > PGD 1f6860067 PUD 1f5d64067 PMD 0 >> > Oops: 0000 [1] SMP >> > CPU 3 >> > Modules linked in: >> > Pid: 4271, comm: dbench Not tainted 2.6.25-rc2-autotest #1 >> > RIP: 0010:[] [] kmem_cache_alloc+0x3a/0x6c >> > RSP: 0000:ffff8101fb041dc8 EFLAGS: 00010246 >> > RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff810180033c00 RCX: ffffffff8027b269 >> > RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000080d0 RDI: ffffffff80632d70 >> > RBP: 00000000000080d0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000 >> > R10: ffff8101feb36e50 R11: 0000000000000190 R12: 0000000000000001 >> > R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8101f8f38000 R15: 00000000ffffff9c >> > FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8101fff0f000(0063) knlGS:00000000f7e41460 >> > CS: 0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033 >> > CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000001f5620000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 >> > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 >> > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 >> > Process dbench (pid: 4271, threadinfo ffff8101fb040000, task ffff8101fb180000) >> > Stack: 0000000000000001 ffff8101fb041ea8 0000000000000001 ffffffff8027b269 >> > ffff8101fb041ea8 ffffffff80281fe8 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 >> > ffff8101fb041ea8 00000000ffffff9c 000000000000000b 0000000000000001 >> > Call Trace: >> > [] get_empty_filp+0x55/0xf9 >> > [] __path_lookup_intent_open+0x22/0x8f >> > [] open_namei+0x86/0x5a7 >> > [] vfs_stat_fd+0x3c/0x4a >> > [] do_filp_open+0x1c/0x3d >> > [] get_unused_fd_flags+0x79/0x111 >> > [] do_sys_open+0x46/0xca >> > [] ia32_sysret+0x0/0xa > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Andrew Morton > wrote: >> Looks to me like we broke slab. Christoph is offline until the 27th.. > > This is probably fixed by: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=00e962c5408b9f2d0bebd2308673fe982cb9a5fe > > As this is on the regression list, Kamalesh, can you please confirm > it's fixed now? > > Pekka Thanks, I tested the 2.6.25-rc3-git4 kernel and the oops is not reproducible. This commit seems to fix the kernel oops. -- Thanks & Regards, Kamalesh Babulal, Linux Technology Center, IBM, ISTL.