Re: kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3689!

["Håvard Skinnemoen" <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>]

On 6/11/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> Ahhh... I see its the same phenomenon as before but triggered by
> a different cause.
>
> If you set the align to 32 then the first kmalloc slabs of size
>
> 8
> 16
> 32
>
> are all of the same size which leads to duplicate files in sysfs.

Yes, that seems to be the problem.

> Does this patch fix it?

Unfortunately, no. But I get a different error message; see below...

Also unfortunately, I won't be able to do any more testing until I get
back to work tomorrow -- I'm currently at home and I can't reset my
board remotely (Doh! Why didn't I set panic_timeout...)

Haavard

kobject_add failed for :0000016 with -EEXIST, don't try to register
things with the same name in the same directory.
Call trace:
 [<9000f14e>] dump_stack+0x1a/0x24
 [<90093128>] kobject_shadow_add+0xc4/0xe8
 [<90093154>] kobject_add+0x8/0xc
 [<9003dec4>] sysfs_slab_add+0xb0/0xf0
 [<900046c6>] slab_sysfs_init+0x26/0x78
 [<900003f0>] kernel_init+0x74/0x1c0
 [<90015cd4>] do_exit+0x0/0x52c

------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at /home/hskinnemoen/git/linux/mm/slub.c:3686!
Oops: Kernel BUG, sig: 9 [#1]
FRAME_POINTER chip: 0x01f:0x1e82 rev 0
Modules linked in:
PC is at slab_sysfs_init+0x28/0x78
LR is at 0x9014e654
pc : [<900046c8>]    lr : [<9014e654>]    Not tainted
sp : 901cbf98  r12: ffffffef  r11: 00000001
r10: 00000001  r9 : 00000000  r8 : 9014e654
r7 : 901cbf98  r6 : 9014a2b4  r5 : 00000000  r4 : 00000000
r3 : 00000000  r2 : 90015cd4  r1 : 9000b4d0  r0 : 00000000
Flags: qvNzc
Mode bits: hrje....g
CPU Mode: Supervisor
Process: swapper [1] (task: 901c9000 thread: 901ca000)
Stack: (0x901cbf98 to 0x901cc000)
bf80:                                                       900003f0 901cbfdc
bfa0: 90009b20 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00400000 9000ebd0
bfc0: 9000ebd0 901cc000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 90015cd4
bfe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 90015cd4 9000037c 00000000
Call trace:
 [<900003f0>] kernel_init+0x74/0x1c0
 [<90015cd4>] do_exit+0x0/0x52c

Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!