On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:47:47PM +0200, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 01:27:10PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Marcin Slusarz > > <marcin.slusarz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > It's some nasty corruption: > > > > Looks like something wrote 0xffffffff to free'd memory. > > > > Enabling DEBUG_PAGEALLOC *might* show where it happens. > > > > > > > > [ 6.523867] ============================================================================= > > > [ 6.523916] BUG sysfs_dir_cache: Poison overwritten > > > [ 6.523949] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > [ 6.523950] > > > [ 6.524016] INFO: 0xffff8801bb47df4c-0xffff8801bb47df4f. First byte 0xff instead of 0x6b > > > [ 6.524061] INFO: Slab 0xffffea00060f7b58 objects=22 used=21 fp=0xffff8801bb47df18 flags=0x80000000000000c1 > > > [ 6.524110] INFO: Object 0xffff8801bb47df18 @offset=3864 fp=0x (null) > > > [ 6.524111] > > > [ 6.524170] Bytes b4 0xffff8801bb47df08: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a ........ZZZZZZZZ > > > [ 6.524516] Object 0xffff8801bb47df18: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk > > > [ 6.524862] Object 0xffff8801bb47df28: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk > > > [ 6.525208] Object 0xffff8801bb47df38: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk > > > [ 6.525556] Object 0xffff8801bb47df48: 6b 6b 6b 6b ff ff ff ff 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkk<FF><FF><FF><FF>kkkkkkkk > > > > So here the 0xffffffff is pretty obvious. > > > > > and in another boot: > > > > > > [ 6.704786] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffbc70b058 > > > > Here it is less obvious, but it was _probably_ a regular kernel > > pointer of the type 0xffff8801bc70b058 before the high bits were > > overwritten by a 0xffffffff. > > > > So then sysfs_refresh_inode() follows that pointer, and crashes. > > > > Just a guess, obviously, but it looks rather likely. > > Thanks. It helped a bit. > I'll send two patches in response to this message, one of which fixes this bug. Thanks Marcin, now my system boots finely again. Consider this bug CLOSED and FIXED. Thanks again, Dominik _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
