Re: 2.6.9 kernel oops with openais

[Steven Dake <sdake@mvista.com>]

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 16:08, Mark Haverkamp wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 15:51 -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
> > Mark,
> > 
> > Have you seen the following oops in 2.6.x?  I can generate it easily
> > with two nodes by letting openais run for 15-20 seconds on 2.6.9.
> > 
> > I had to turn mlockall off in order to get openais to run in the first
> > place, otherwise openais runs out of ram which causes a memset to a null
> > address in parse.c (we should fix that:).  Have you had problems with
> > mlock when working with a 2.6 kernel?
> 
> Funny that you should ask.  Just this afternoon I updated one of my
> machines from 2.6.8-rc4 to 2.6.10-rc1 and saw the memset problem.  (I
> got around it by commenting out the group.conf file). And then got a
> segfault later.  I didn't see a kernel panic though since I couldn't get
> it to run that long.  I don't know about any mlock problems.  Maybe the
> kernel mailing list archives has something.
> 

Can you see if you can duplicate the oops?  I can get other oopses as
well probably all related..  The best way around the memset problem is
to comment out the code that does the mlockall (the function is
aisexec_mlockall().  This then allows all memory allocations to
succeed.  I think there must be some new limit with mlockall in the
2.6.9 kernel series or later.

Thanks
-steve

> 
> Mark.
> 
> > 
> >  <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
> > 0000000c
> >  printing eip:
> > c016dd7b
> > *pde = 00000000
> > Oops: 0000 [#2]
> > PREEMPT SMP
> > Modules linked in:
> > CPU:    2
> > EIP:    0060:[<c016dd7b>]    Not tainted VLI
> > EFLAGS: 00010286   (2.6.9)
> > EIP is at dnotify_flush+0x1e/0xad
> > eax: 00000000   ebx: f6cdfb80   ecx: 00000000   edx: f6cdfb80
> > esi: 00000000   edi: f7baf880   ebp: f6cdfb80   esp: f6cefd50
> > ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
> > Process aisexec (pid: 929, threadinfo=f6cee000 task=f7cc2810)
> > Stack: c0154240 f7224a70 f7cdea80 f6cdfb80 00000000 f7baf880 f7baf880
> > c0152a6f
> >        f6cdfb80 f7baf880 00000005 00000007 0000000f c011e344 f6cdfb80
> > f7baf880
> >        00000020 00000001 f7baf880 f7cc2d38 f7cc2810 f7a9a0ac c011f11e
> > f7cc2810
> > Call Trace:
> >  [<c0154240>] __fput+0x86/0xd4
> >  [<c0152a6f>] filp_close+0x46/0x86
> >  [<c011e344>] put_files_struct+0x87/0xec
> >  [<c011f11e>] do_exit+0x1a8/0x360
> >  [<c01070fd>] do_divide_error+0x0/0x13e
> >  [<c0116640>] do_page_fault+0x251/0x5af
> >  [<c0108aa3>] do_IRQ+0xd2/0x139
> >  [<c033b760>] move_addr_to_user+0x5c/0x67
> >  [<c033d815>] sys_recvmsg+0x21d/0x226
> >  [<c033f3ec>] release_sock+0x1b/0x71
> >  [<c033f3a7>] lock_sock+0x17/0x41
> >  [<c01555d7>] invalidate_inode_buffers+0x1b/0x7e
> >  [<c01163ef>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x5af
> >  [<c01068e5>] error_code+0x2d/0x38
> >  [<c033c550>] sock_poll+0xe/0x31
> >  [<c01664c1>] do_pollfd+0x8c/0x90
> >  [<c016652b>] do_poll+0x66/0xc6
> >  [<c01666cb>] sys_poll+0x140/0x1fd
> >  [<c0165a45>] __pollwait+0x0/0xc5
> >  [<c0105e7b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> >