Re: [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9

["Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>  so it's probably the first few page allocations (setup_cpu_cache())
>  going wrong already - suggesting a some fundamental borkage in SLAB?

I think it's still pointing to the page allocator and/or setting up
the zonelists...

>  note, when i change SLAB to SLUB (and keep the config unchanged
>  otherwise), i get a similar early crash:

...especially considering you have similar crash with SLUB as well.

Now this:

[    0.000999] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    0.000999] WARNING: at mm/slab.c:1685 cache_alloc_refill+0x2a6/0x4a3()
[    0.000999] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.25-rc9 #924
[    0.000999]  [<c0121b6f>] warn_on_slowpath+0x3c/0x4c
[    0.000999]  [<c0781873>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xf/0x13
[    0.000999]  [<c02941ad>] ? delay_tsc+0x2e/0x4e
[    0.000999]  [<c029414d>] ? __delay+0x9/0xb
[    0.000999]  [<c0353db3>] ? serial8250_console_putchar+0x80/0x86
[    0.000999]  [<c0148822>] ? get_page_from_freelist+0x230/0x345
[    0.000999]  [<c0121eb1>] ? __call_console_drivers+0x56/0x63
[    0.000999]  [<c01489bb>] ? __alloc_pages+0x6e/0x2be
[    0.000999]  [<c015bd2e>] cache_alloc_refill+0x2a6/0x4a3
[    0.000999]  [<c015ba3f>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x5b/0xa4

Says that alloc_pages_node() returned NULL early on in the boot.
However, GFP_THISNODE is ruled out as this:

Index: linux/mm/page_alloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ linux/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1485,6 +1485,7 @@ restart:
                * Happens if we have an empty zonelist as a result of
                * GFP_THISNODE being used on a memoryless node
                */
+               WARN_ON(1);
               return NULL;
       }

does not trigger. Hmm...