Re: upstream kernel crashes

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Mon Aug 15 2022 - 03:54:04 EST


On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 12:46:36AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2022, at 00:29, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 12:11:43AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 2022-08-14 20:18:44 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >> > On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 6:36 PM Andres Freund <andres@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > Some of the symptoms could be related to the issue in this thread, hence
> >> > > listing them here
> >> >
> >> > Smells like slab corruption to me, and the problems may end up being
> >> > then largely random just depending on who ends up using the allocation
> >> > that gets trampled on.
> >> >
> >> > I wouldn't be surprised if it's all the same thing - including your
> >> > network issue.
> >>
> >> Yea. As I just wrote in
> >> https://postgr.es/m/20220815070203.plwjx7b3cyugpdt7%40awork3.anarazel.de I
> >> bisected it down to one commit (762faee5a267). With that commit I only see the
> >> networking issue across a few reboots, but with ebcce4926365 some boots oops
> >> badly and other times it' "just" network not working.
> >>
> >>
> >> [oopses]
>
> >> If somebody knowledgeable staring at 762faee5a267 doesn't surface somebody I
> >> can create a kernel with some more debugging stuff enabled, if somebody tells
> >> me what'd work best here.
> >>
> >>
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> Andres Freund
> >
> > Thanks a lot for the work!
> > Just a small clarification:
> >
> > So IIUC you see several issues, right?
>
> Yes, although they might be related, as theorized by Linus upthread.
>
> > With 762faee5a2678559d3dc09d95f8f2c54cd0466a7 you see networking issues.
>
> Yes.
>
>
> > With ebcce492636506443e4361db6587e6acd1a624f9 you see crashes.
>
> Changed between rebooting. Sometimes the network issue, sometimes the crashes in the email you're replying to.
>

OK I think we can safely drop the others on the Cc, and I will add
a bunch of people and relevant lists instead.
I want to fix this quickly so testing can proceed.


> > MST