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

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

On 2011.11.22 at 09:27 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mardi 22 novembre 2011 à 08:48 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
> 
> > For x86, I wonder if our !X86_FEATURE_CX16 support is correct on SMP
> > machines.
> > 
> 
> 
> By the way, I wonder why we still emit this_cpu_cmpxchg16b_emu() code
> and calls when compiling a kernel for a cpu implementing cmpxchg16b
> 
> (CONFIG_MCORE2=y)

Yeah, it's strange (CONFIG_MK8):

ffffffff811058b0 <__kmalloc>:
...
ffffffff8110594f:       48 8d 4a 04             lea    0x4(%rdx),%rcx
ffffffff81105953:       49 8b 1c 04             mov    (%r12,%rax,1),%rbx
ffffffff81105957:       4c 89 e0                mov    %r12,%rax
ffffffff8110595a:       e8 11 70 10 00          callq  ffffffff8120c970 <this_cpu_cmpxchg16b_emu>
ffffffff8110595f:       66 66 90                data32 xchg %ax,%ax
ffffffff81105962:       84 c0                   test   %al,%al
ffffffff81105964:       74 c6                   je     ffffffff8110592c <__kmalloc+0x7c>
...

There is a comment in arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h:

 * Pretty complex macro to generate cmpxchg16 instruction.  The instruction
 * is not supported on early AMD64 processors so we must be able to emulate
 * it in software.  The address used in the cmpxchg16 instruction must be
 * aligned to a 16 byte boundary.
-- 
Markus
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