Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 Kernel panic - not syncing: Can't createpid_1 cachep

From: Pavel Emelyanov
Date: Wed Aug 22 2007 - 10:43:39 EST


Kamalesh Babulal wrote:

The creation of this cache consists of allocating ~30
bytes and creating a new kmem cache. This looks strange
that one of these allocation falied...

Could you please check what has happened with this patch:

diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index d267775..9d594eb 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -458,15 +458,22 @@ static struct kmem_cache *create_pid_cac
goto out;

pcache = kmalloc(sizeof(struct pid_cache), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (pcache == NULL)
+ if (pcache == NULL) {
+ printk("Can't alloc pcache size %d\n",
+ sizeof(struct pid_cache));
goto err_alloc;
+ }

snprintf(pcache->name, sizeof(pcache->name), "pid_%d", nr_ids);
cachep = kmem_cache_create(pcache->name,
sizeof(struct pid) + (nr_ids - 1) * sizeof(struct upid),
0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL);
- if (cachep == NULL)
+ if (cachep == NULL) {
+ printk("Can't create cachep size %d\n",
+ sizeof(struct pid) +
+ (nr_ids - 1) * sizeof(struct upid));
goto err_cachep;
+ }

pcache->nr_ids = nr_ids;
pcache->cachep = cachep;



Hi Andrew,

Following Kernel panic is raised while booting up with 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 kernel.

============================================================
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Initializing HighMem for node 0 (00038000:001fbe00)
Initializing HighMem for node 1 (00200000:003fbe00)
Initializing HighMem for node 2 (00400000:005fbe00)
Initializing HighMem for node 3 (00600000:007fbe00)
Memory: 32480436k/33554432k available (2146k kernel code, 278984k reserved, 1203k data, 216k init, 31842304k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xffe1a000 - 0xfffff000 (1940 kB)
pkmap : 0xffc00000 - 0xffe00000 (2048 kB)
vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xffbfe000 ( 115 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000 ( 896 MB)
.init : 0xc134c000 - 0xc1382000 ( 216 kB)
.data : 0xc12189e1 - 0xc1345758 (1203 kB)
.text : 0xc1000000 - 0xc12189e1 (2146 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
SLUB: Genslabs=12, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=16, CPUs=16, Nodes=16
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 1401.55 BogoMIPS (lpj=2803105)
Kernel panic - not syncing: Can't create pid_1 cachep


Thanks & Regards,
Kamalesh Babulal.
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