Re: WARNING: at mm/slub.c:3357, kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3413

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Mon Nov 21 2011 - 12:15:13 EST


Le lundi 21 novembre 2011 Ã 17:52 +0100, Eric Dumazet a Ãcrit :
> Le lundi 21 novembre 2011 Ã 17:10 +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf a Ãcrit :
>
> > Sure. This one happend with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y:
> >
> > [drm] Initialized radeon 2.11.0 20080528 for 0000:01:05.0 on minor 0
> > loop: module loaded
> > ahci 0000:00:11.0: version 3.0
> > ahci 0000:00:11.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
> > ahci 0000:00:11.0: AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 6 ports 3 Gbps 0x3f impl SATA mode
> > ahci 0000:00:11.0: flags: 64bit ncq sntf ilck pm led clo pmp pio slum part ccc
> > scsi0 : ahci
> > scsi1 : ahci
> > =============================================================================
> > BUG task_struct: Poison overwritten
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Unfortunately thats the same problem, not catched by DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> because freed page is immediately reused.
>
> We should keep pages in free list longer, to have a bigger window.
>
> Hmm...
>
> Please try following patch :
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 9dd443d..b8932a6 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -1196,7 +1196,7 @@ void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, int cold)
> }
>
> pcp = &this_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset)->pcp;
> - if (cold)
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC) || cold)
> list_add_tail(&page->lru, &pcp->lists[migratetype]);
> else
> list_add(&page->lru, &pcp->lists[migratetype]);
>


Also add "slub_max_order=0" to your boot command, since it will make the
pool larger...





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