From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752585AbbCVXyH (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Mar 2015 19:54:07 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:49969 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751962AbbCVXyF (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Mar 2015 19:54:05 -0400 Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 19:54:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20150322.195403.1653355516554747742.davem@davemloft.net> To: david.ahern@oracle.com Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bpicco@meloft.net Subject: Re: 4.0.0-rc4: panic in free_block From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <550F51D5.2010804@oracle.com> References: <20150322.182311.109269221031797359.davem@davemloft.net> <550F51D5.2010804@oracle.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.6 on Emacs 24.4 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Sun, 22 Mar 2015 16:54:04 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: David Ahern Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 17:35:49 -0600 > I don't know if you caught Bob's message; he has a hack to bypass > memcpy and memmove in mm/slab.c use a for loop to move entries. With > the hack he is not seeing the problem. > > This is the hack: > > +static void move_entries(void *dest, void *src, int nr) > +{ > + unsigned long *dp = dest; > + unsigned long *sp = src; > + > + for (; nr; nr--, dp++, sp++) > + *dp = *sp; > +} > + > > and then replace the mempy and memmove calls in transfer_objects, > cache_flusharray and drain_array to use move_entries. > > I just put it on 4.0.0-rc4 and ditto -- problem goes away, so it > clearly suggests the memcpy or memmove are the root cause. Thanks, didn't notice that. So, something is amuck.