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From: "Witold Baryluk" <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl>
To: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel OOPS in function_graph_tracer due to the 44259b1. More oopses in tracing...
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 01:46:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110530234654.GB14366@smp.if.uj.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=7k4XbK6JVDp3oOJRAK_7Ox=aWMw@mail.gmail.com>


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On 05-30 16:14, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Witold Baryluk
> <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I found yesterday a problem when booting system on Pentium-M, 32-bit.
> >
> > I got approximetly this
> >
> > [    2.459170] Testing tracer function_graph:
> > [    2.466979] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at e421cc10
> 
> >
> > Reverting commit 44259b1abfaa8bb819d25d41d71e8e33e25dd36a on top of current
> > kernel make bug disapear.
> >
> > Disabling CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER also make bug dispear.
> >
> 
> Of course, the most trivial of my patches was the one with the most
> significant bug.  Can you try this fix:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=commitdiff;h=89e1be50c68eb5e58b873dce87bbac627ee18d1f
> 
> --Andy

Well, to add more.

It fixed most of crashes and definietl one with function graph tracer.

However in 1/10 of boots I still got some kind of crash, oops or panic.

I repeated 50 times a boot cycle on qemu, and got oopses in attachments.

...
[    0.036201] CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
[    0.038551] ftrace: allocating 6263 entries in 13 pages
[    0.050411] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000012
[    0.051079] IP: [<c106a07f>] note_interrupt+0xf/0x1c0
[    0.051743] *pdpt = 0000000000000000 *pde = f000ff53f000ff53 
...
CRASH


....
[    0.035682] CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
[    0.038048] ftrace: allocating 6263 entries in 13 pages
[    0.050386] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 8a51553a
[    0.051031] IP: [<c10587cd>] tick_handle_periodic+0x1d/0x90
[    0.051705] *pdpt = 0000000000000000 *pde = f000ff53f000ff53 
...
CRASH

...
[    1.758224] Testing tracer preemptirqsoff: 
[    1.772287] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    1.773193] WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:3351 check_flags+0x186/0x190()
...
BOOTING (up to mounting root - not tested more)

...
[    0.045767] CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
[    0.048323] ftrace: allocating 6263 entries in 13 pages
CRASH


Details in attachments.


Regards,
Witek

-- 
Witold Baryluk

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-30 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-30 16:10 Kernel OOPS in function_graph_tracer due to the 44259b1abfaa8bb819d25d41d71e8e33e25dd36a commit (x86-64: Move vread_tsc into a new file with sensible options) Witold Baryluk
2011-05-30 20:14 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-30 22:19   ` Witold Baryluk
2011-05-30 23:46   ` Witold Baryluk [this message]
2011-05-31  1:23     ` Kernel OOPS in function_graph_tracer due to the 44259b1. More oopses in tracing Andrew Lutomirski

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