Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm3: Kernel BUG at "mm/slab.c":1219

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

Hi,

On Thursday, 5 of May 2005 14:58, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, 5 of May 2005 07:10, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc3/2.6.12-rc3-mm3/
> > 
> > - device mapper updates
> > 
> > - more UML updates
> > 
> > - -mm seems unusually stable at present.
> 
> Well, it does not boot on my box (Athlon64 + NForce3, 64-bit).  Apparently, it
> loops forever in the early stage (ie before displaying the pengiun).  I'll try
> to get more information when I find something to attach to the serial port ...

It took some time, but finally I've got the following:

]--snip--[
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
Detected 12.467 MHz APIC timer.
softlockup thread 0 started up.
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
kmem_cache_create: Early error in slab <NULL>
----------- [cut here ] --------- [please bite here ] ---------
Kernel BUG at "mm/slab.c":1219
invalid operand: 0000 [1]
CPU 0
Modules linked in:
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.12-rc3-mm3
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff80179eeb>] <ffffffff80179eeb>{kmem_cache_create+139}
RSP: 0000:ffff810001ca1eb8  EFLAGS: 00010292
RAX: 0000000000000034 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000dd3 RDI: ffffffff804167e0
RBP: 0000000000000005 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000010 R11: 0000000000000008 R12: 0000000000042000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000ffffffff8010 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff8055a840(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000004000 CR3: 0000000000101000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo ffff810001ca0000, task ffff810001c5a7a0)
Stack: fffffffffffffff8 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
       0000000000000010 0000000000000000 0000000000000005 0000000000000006
       00000000ffffffff 0000ffffffff8010
Call Trace:<ffffffff8057a11d>{init_bio+93} <ffffffff8010c0f2>{init+178}
       <ffffffff8010fc37>{child_rip+8} <ffffffff8010c040>{init+0}
       <ffffffff8010fc2f>{child_rip+0}

Code: 0f 0b e2 5c 3c 80 ff ff ff ff c3 04 48 8b 7c 24 18 be 20 00
RIP <ffffffff80179eeb>{kmem_cache_create+139} RSP <ffff810001ca1eb8>
 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
 <3>BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!

Modules linked in:
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.12-rc3-mm3
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff80278fd4>] <ffffffff80278fd4>{__delay+4}
RSP: 0000:ffff810001ca1bc0  EFLAGS: 00000287
RAX: 00000000000bd1ed RBX: 00000000000013b5 RCX: 000000002b039efb
RDX: 0000000000000008 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00000000001b67a0
RBP: 00000000000013b5 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff8055a840(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000004000 CR3: 0000000000101000 CR4: 00000000000006e0

Call Trace:<ffffffff80137d69>{panic+377} <ffffffff80139e61>{profile_task_exit+49}
       <ffffffff8013c983>{do_exit+147} <ffffffff80110b16>{show_registers+230}
       <ffffffff802c93f5>{do_unblank_screen+21} <ffffffff80110e35>{die+69}
       <ffffffff801117d1>{do_invalid_op+145} <ffffffff80179eeb>{kmem_cache_create+139}
       <ffffffff801767c0>{check_poison_obj+48} <ffffffff8013803d>{printk+141}
       <ffffffff8010fa81>{error_exit+0} <ffffffff80179eeb>{kmem_cache_create+139}
       <ffffffff80179eeb>{kmem_cache_create+139} <ffffffff8057a11d>{init_bio+93}
       <ffffffff8010c0f2>{init+178} <ffffffff8010fc37>{child_rip+8}
       <ffffffff8010c040>{init+0} <ffffffff8010fc2f>{child_rip+0}


Greets,
Rafael


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