From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-mm2 - oops in cache_alloc_refill()
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:29:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060928202931.dc324339.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609290319.k8T3JOwS005455@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:19:11 -0400
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 01:46:23 PDT, Andrew Morton said:
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18/2.6.18-mm2/
>
> Yowza. This has been one of the most unstable -mm I've personally tried since
> 2.6.0 came out (and I've tried to give each and every single one a shot).
>
> Something is giving cache_alloc_refill() massive indigestion, I'm taking
> lots of oopsen in it. Usually within 5-10 minutes I'm dead in the water.
Could be anything I'm afraid. But you're the first to report it, so there's
something distinct in your .config or hardware.
Whose idea was it to make it a monolithic kernel??
> >From an untainted kernel:
>
> Sep 28 21:51:59 turing-police kernel: [ 526.046000] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00100104
> Sep 28 21:51:59 turing-police kernel: [ 526.046000] printing eip:
> Sep 28 21:51:59 turing-police kernel: [ 526.046000] c0150c43
> Sep 28 21:51:59 turing-police kernel: [ 526.046000] *pde = 00000000
>
> as far as it got logging it to disk - at that point the machine locked up
> hard, even alt-sysrq was dead, had to power-cycle. Long time since that
> happened. Admittedly, that's not much to go on, but it shows that I'm having
> issues in cache_alloc_refill() even when untainted. I'll probably get more
> complete untainted traces while playing bisect-the-mm tomorrow....
bisecting would be good, thanks. It might be quicker to strip down the .config
though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-29 3:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 140+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-28 8:46 2.6.18-mm2 Andrew Morton
2006-09-28 11:54 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Michal Piotrowski
2006-09-29 12:12 ` md deadlock (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2) Peter Zijlstra
2006-09-29 12:52 ` Neil Brown
2006-09-29 14:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-10-02 13:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-10-10 3:53 ` Neil Brown
2006-10-10 6:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-28 17:50 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Steve Fox
2006-09-28 19:00 ` 2.6.18-mm2 thunder7
2006-09-28 21:01 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Andrew Morton
2006-09-28 22:45 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-04 13:42 ` 2.6.18-mm2 boot failure on x86-64 Steve Fox
2006-10-04 15:45 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-04 15:55 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-10-04 15:56 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 1:57 ` Keith Mannthey
2006-10-04 16:41 ` Steve Fox
2006-10-05 0:06 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-05 0:51 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-10-05 0:57 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 1:08 ` Martin Bligh
2006-10-05 2:05 ` Keith Mannthey
2006-10-05 14:53 ` Steve Fox
2006-10-05 15:12 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-10-05 15:32 ` Steve Fox
2006-10-05 15:40 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 17:57 ` Steve Fox
2006-10-05 18:27 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 18:51 ` Steve Fox
2006-10-05 19:05 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 20:42 ` Steve Fox
2006-10-05 20:50 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-06 2:23 ` Steve Fox
2006-10-06 14:33 ` Mel Gorman
2006-10-06 15:36 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-10-06 17:11 ` Mel Gorman
2006-10-06 17:34 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-10-06 17:59 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-10-06 18:03 ` Steve Fox
2006-10-06 20:04 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-10-09 9:53 ` Mel Gorman
2006-10-16 18:16 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-10-16 23:58 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-17 12:18 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-17 17:32 ` Mel Gorman
2006-10-05 18:52 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-10-05 19:08 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 20:25 ` Steve Fox
2006-10-05 20:39 ` Mel Gorman
2006-10-05 20:51 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 23:14 ` 2.6.18-mm2 boot failure on x86-64 II Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 23:32 ` keith mannthey
2006-10-05 23:35 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 23:58 ` keith mannthey
2006-10-06 0:02 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-10-06 0:12 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-28 22:39 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Jim Cromie
2006-09-28 23:08 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Andi Kleen
2006-09-29 20:14 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-29 20:36 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Andi Kleen
2006-09-29 20:32 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-29 20:58 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Andi Kleen
2006-09-29 21:14 ` [patch] fix !apic build breakage Ingo Molnar
2006-09-29 21:44 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-29 21:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-29 21:44 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Alan Cox
2006-09-29 21:36 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Dave Jones
2006-09-29 21:46 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Andi Kleen
2006-09-28 22:44 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Matthias Hentges
2006-09-29 3:19 ` 2.6.18-mm2 - oops in cache_alloc_refill() Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-09-29 3:29 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-09-29 3:58 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-09-29 15:19 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-09-29 19:45 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-30 0:01 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-09-30 1:20 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-30 1:33 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-09-30 3:31 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-09-30 7:50 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-09-30 8:33 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-30 1:40 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-09-30 3:31 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-09-30 1:57 ` Makefile for linux modules x z
2006-09-30 8:55 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-09-30 1:59 ` x z
2006-10-02 17:52 ` 2.6.18-mm2 - oops in cache_alloc_refill() Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-02 19:57 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-10-03 15:58 ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-10-03 16:34 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-03 16:45 ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-10-03 17:07 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-05 22:37 ` Pavel Roskin
2006-10-05 22:42 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-09-29 19:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-29 13:57 ` 2.6.18-mm2 J.A. Magallón
2006-09-29 14:39 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Matthew Wilcox
2006-09-29 17:15 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Alan Cox
2006-09-29 23:50 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Frederik Deweerdt
2006-09-29 23:43 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Alan Cox
2006-09-30 14:09 ` [-mm patch] aic7xxx: check irq validity (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2) Frederik Deweerdt
2006-09-30 14:19 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-30 13:51 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-09-30 23:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-01 14:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-01 19:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-01 19:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-01 19:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-01 19:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-01 19:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-02 2:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-02 20:00 ` [RFC PATCH] pci_request_irq (was [-mm patch] aic7xxx: check irq validity) Frederik Deweerdt
2006-10-02 18:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-02 21:09 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2006-10-02 20:07 ` [RFC PATCH] move aic7xxx to pci_request_irq Frederik Deweerdt
2006-10-02 18:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-02 21:02 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2006-10-03 3:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-02 20:11 ` [RFC PATCH] move tg3 " Frederik Deweerdt
2006-10-02 18:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-02 21:04 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2006-10-03 7:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-02 20:12 ` [RFC PATCH] move drm " Frederik Deweerdt
2006-10-02 18:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-02 21:07 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2006-10-02 20:36 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-02 22:26 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2006-10-02 23:54 ` Dave Airlie
2006-10-03 7:17 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2006-10-03 3:58 ` [RFC PATCH] pci_request_irq (was [-mm patch] aic7xxx: check irq validity) Randy Dunlap
2006-10-01 21:31 ` [-mm patch] aic7xxx: check irq validity (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2) Frederik Deweerdt
2006-09-30 15:26 ` 2.6.18-mm2 James Bottomley
2006-09-30 16:21 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Matthew Wilcox
2006-09-30 17:20 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Mark Rustad
2006-09-30 20:54 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Alan Cox
2006-09-29 23:15 ` 2.6.18-mm2 J.A. Magallón
2006-09-30 7:04 ` 2.6.18-mm2 - possible recursive locking detected Borislav Petkov
2006-09-30 8:28 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-30 18:19 ` Davide Libenzi
[not found] ` <20060930133706.GA3291@melchior.yamamaya.is-a-geek.org>
2006-09-30 19:53 ` 2.6.18-mm2 Andrew Morton
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