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

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Tue Apr 15 2008 - 02:42:17 EST


On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> 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...
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