[OOPS] Linux-2.6.0-test9

[OOPS] Linux-2.6.0-test9

[Udo A. Steinberg]

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Hi,

Following oops just happened with Linux-2.6.0-test9. All filesystems are ext3,
except for /dev/hda6 which is ext3 over aes-cryptoloop.

-Udo.


Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 50d35f7c
 printing eip:
c016c912
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#2]
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c016c912>]    Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010246
EIP is at __d_lookup+0xf2/0x150
eax: 50d35f7c   ebx: d1d35f00   ecx: 00000004   edx: d1d35f64
esi: 50d35f7c   edi: d7329000   ebp: d1d35f70   esp: d4ed7e68
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process sylpheed (pid: 19589, threadinfo=d4ed6000 task=d3dfa0a0)
Stack: d7fdd6c0 000796b7 00001000 00000000 d7f46aa0 d4ed6000 c0190473 00000000 
       d7329000 00d03008 00000004 d7329000 d4ed7f38 d7ff4660 d4ed7ee4 c0161f30 
       d21db820 d4ed7eec d21db820 d7329000 d4ed7ee4 d4ed7f38 d4ed7eec c016245f 
Call Trace:
 [<c0190473>] ext3_getblk+0x93/0x280
 [<c0161f30>] do_lookup+0x30/0xb0
 [<c016245f>] link_path_walk+0x4af/0x940
 [<c0162df9>] __user_walk+0x49/0x60
 [<c015dd2f>] vfs_stat+0x1f/0x60
 [<c015e4cb>] sys_stat64+0x1b/0x40
 [<c010942b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Code: f3 a6 75 9d 8b 44 24 14 ff 40 14 8b 54 24 0c 3b 53 58 75 0c 
 <6>note: sylpheed[19589] exited with preempt_count 1

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Re: [OOPS] Linux-2.6.0-test9

[Udo A. Steinberg]

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On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 00:09:24 +0100 Udo A. Steinberg (UAS) wrote:

UAS> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 50d35f7c
UAS>  printing eip:
UAS> c016c912
UAS> *pde = 00000000
UAS> Oops: 0000 [#2]

I just noticed that my last report was actually the second OOPS in a whole
series. Here is the first one.

-Udo.

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 50d35f7c
printing eip:
c016c912
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c016c912>]    Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010246
EIP is at __d_lookup+0xf2/0x150   
eax: 50d35f7c   ebx: d1d35f00   ecx: 00000004   edx: d1d35f64
esi: 50d35f7c   edi: d650e000   ebp: d1d35f70   esp: d3c85e68
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068                               
Process sylpheed (pid: 265, threadinfo=d3c84000 task=d3dfa6c0)
Stack: d7ff4660 d3c85ee4 c0109598 00000000 d7f46aa0 d3c84000 d3c85f38 00000000
       d650e000 00d03008 00000004 d650e000 d3c85f38 d7ff4660 d3c85ee4 c0161f30
       d21db820 d3c85eec d21db820 d650e000 d3c85ee4 d3c85f38 d3c85eec c016245f
Call Trace:
 [<c0109598>] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
 [<c0161f30>] do_lookup+0x30/0xb0
 [<c016245f>] link_path_walk+0x4af/0x940
 [<c0162df9>] __user_walk+0x49/0x60
 [<c015dd2f>] vfs_stat+0x1f/0x60
 [<c015e4cb>] sys_stat64+0x1b/0x40      
 [<c010942b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Code: f3 a6 75 9d 8b 44 24 14 ff 40 14 8b 54 24 0c 3b 53 58 75 0c
 <6>note: sylpheed[265] exited with preempt_count 1      


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Re: [OOPS] Linux-2.6.0-test9

[Linus Torvalds]

Udo A. Steinberg wrote:
> 
> I just noticed that my last report was actually the second OOPS in a whole
> series. Here is the first one.
> 
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 50d35f7c
> EIP is at __d_lookup+0xf2/0x150

Ok, looks like your dentry lists got seriously corrupted.

The good news (?) is that you seem to have preempt enabled, and there is one
known (but fairly hard-to-hit) race in UP+preempt locking due to bad
barrier ordering in test9 (and all previous kernels too, for that matter).
That should be fixed in the current BK snapshots, but you can also avoid
the problem by just not enabling preempt.

Of course, if you see the bug without preempt, or if this was on a SMP
kernel (which _should_ have hidden the preempt problem even with preempt
enabled), holler.

                Linus

Re: [OOPS] Linux-2.6.0-test9

[Udo A. Steinberg]

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On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:01:51 -0800 Linus Torvalds (LT) wrote:

LT> The good news (?) is that you seem to have preempt enabled, and there is one
LT> known (but fairly hard-to-hit) race in UP+preempt locking due to bad
LT> barrier ordering in test9 (and all previous kernels too, for that matter).
LT> That should be fixed in the current BK snapshots, but you can also avoid
LT> the problem by just not enabling preempt.

Yes, the kernel is UP + preempt. I'll try the current BK snapshot and will
let you know should the problem occur again.

-Udo.

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Re: [OOPS] Linux-2.6.0-test9

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Udo A. Steinberg wrote:
> 
> Yes, the kernel is UP + preempt. I'll try the current BK snapshot and will
> let you know should the problem occur again.

Btw, what compiler version do you have? The UP+preempt bug is a real bug,
but as far as I've been able to find out it's almost impossible to get gcc
to actually generate code that might trigger it. So while it's entirely
possible that the bug you're seeing is due to the (now fixed) UP+preempt 
bug, it's also quite possible that there's something else going on too.

			Linus

Re: [OOPS] Linux-2.6.0-test9

[Udo A. Steinberg]

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On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 20:45:55 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds (LT) wrote:

LT> Btw, what compiler version do you have? The UP+preempt bug is a real bug,
LT> but as far as I've been able to find out it's almost impossible to get gcc
LT> to actually generate code that might trigger it. So while it's entirely
LT> possible that the bug you're seeing is due to the (now fixed) UP+preempt 
LT> bug, it's also quite possible that there's something else going on too.

I'm using gcc 3.3.2.

Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.2/specs
Configured with: ../gcc-3.3.2/configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared
--enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-checking --with-gnu-ld
--verbose --target=i486-slackware-linux --host=i486-slackware-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.2

-Udo.

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Re: [OOPS] Linux-2.6.0-test9

[Udo A. Steinberg]

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On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 11:10:06 +1100 Peter Lieverdink (PL) wrote:

PL> What command do you execute right before this oops occurs? Is this an 
PL> Athlon system?

The system was unattended and rather idle at that time. It's not an Athlon,
but a Pentium-III (Coppermine).

-Udo.

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