Re: 2.6.9-mm1

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> 
> 
>>Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>>"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>I'm trying to spend time on kexec++ this week, but this little BUG
>>>>>>keeps getting in the way.  Has it already been reported/fixed?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>kernel BUG at arch/i386/mm/highmem.c:42!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>oops, we did it again.
> 
> 
> Doh.
> 
> 
>>>>>--- 25/drivers/ide/ide-taskfile.c~ide_pio_sector-kmap-fix	Mon Oct 25 15:54:35 2004
>>>>>+++ 25-akpm/drivers/ide/ide-taskfile.c	Mon Oct 25 15:54:48 2004
>>>>>@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ static void ide_pio_sector(ide_drive_t *
>>>>>	else
>>>>>		taskfile_input_data(drive, buf, SECTOR_WORDS);
>>>>>
>>>>>-	kunmap_atomic(page, KM_BIO_SRC_IRQ);
>>>>>+	kunmap_atomic(buf, KM_BIO_SRC_IRQ);
>>>>>#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
>>>>>	local_irq_restore(flags);
>>>>>#endif
>>>>>_
>>>>
>>>>Yes, that gets further.   :(
>>>>Maybe I'll just (try) apply the kexec patch to a vanilla kernel.
> 
> 
> IDE PIO changes are the part of a vanilla kernel.
> 
> If vanilla kernel (+akpm's fix) works OK then
> this bug is not mine fault. :)
> 
> 
>>>I doubt if it'll help much.  It looks like IDE PIO got badly broken.
> 
> 
> Weird, this code was in -mm for over a month.
> 
> 
>>>That's something we have to fix - could you work with Bart on it please?
>>
>>Sure.  Bart?
> 
> 
> I need more data, IDE PIO works fine here.
> 
> 
>>>How come your disks are running in PIO mode anyway?
> 
> 
> Maybe disks are runing in DMA mode but some application
> triggers PIO access (IDENTIFY command, S.M.A.R.T. etc.)...
> 
> 
>>No idea.

Andrew made me look.  Duh.  It's because I'm booting with
ide=nodma.

So Bart, can you check the noautodma=1 code path?
And I'll test it again on Tuesday without using ide=nodma.

4 oopsen boot logs are (back-to-back) in:
http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/doc/capture-ide.txt
if you need to see them.


>>>>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffea000
>>>> printing eip:
>>>>c02c8e4d
>>>>*pde = 0064b067
>>>>*pte = 00000000
>>>>Oops: 0002 [#1]
>>>>SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
>>>>Modules linked in:
>>>>CPU:    0
>>>>EIP:    0060:[<c02c8e4d>]    Not tainted VLI
>>>>EFLAGS: 00010006   (2.6.9-mm1)
>>>>EIP is at ide_insw+0xd/0x20
>>>>eax: 000001f0   ebx: c05ee7ec   ecx: 00000100   edx: 000001f0
>>>>esi: c05ee7ec   edi: fffea000   ebp: c056fe80   esp: c056fe7c
>>>>ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
>>>>Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo=c056e000 task=c0486b80)
>>>>Stack: c05ee740 c056fea0 c02c93b8 000001f0 fffea000 00000100 c05ee7ec
>>>>00000080
>>>>       fffea000 c056fec0 c02ccf06 c05ee7ec fffea000 00000080 00000000
>>>>00000000
>>>>       c05ee740 c056feec c02cd62b c05ee7ec fffea000 00000080 00000000
>>>>fffea000
>>>>Call Trace:
>>>> [<c0107eff>] show_stack+0xaf/0xc0
>>>> [<c010808d>] show_registers+0x15d/0x1e0
>>>> [<c01082a6>] die+0x106/0x190
>>>> [<c011c707>] do_page_fault+0x517/0x6a6
>>>> [<c0107b4d>] error_code+0x2d/0x38
>>>> [<c02c93b8>] ata_input_data+0x98/0xa0
>>>> [<c02ccf06>] taskfile_input_data+0x26/0x50
>>>> [<c02cd62b>] ide_pio_sector+0xcb/0xf0
>>>> [<c02cd892>] task_in_intr+0xe2/0x100
>>>> [<c02c8c16>] ide_intr+0xb6/0x150
>>>> [<c0142cd8>] handle_IRQ_event+0x38/0x70
>>>> [<c0142df2>] __do_IRQ+0xe2/0x150
>>>> [<c0109606>] do_IRQ+0x36/0x60
>>>> [<c0107a30>] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
>>>> [<c01050f1>] cpu_idle+0x31/0x50
>>>> [<c05709bf>] start_kernel+0x15f/0x180
>>>> [<c0100211>] 0xc0100211
>>>>Code: e5 8b 55 08 ec 0f b6 c0 5d c3 8d 74 26 00 55 89 e5 8b 55 08 66
>>>>ed 0f b7 c
>>>> <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
>>>> <0>Dumping messages in 0 seconds : last chance for Alt-SysRq...


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~Randy