On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 04:43:11PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > On 09/24/2012 04:35 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 04:08:33PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > >> On 09/24/2012 03:53 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> we're able to trigger the oops below when doing CPU hotplug tests. > >>> > >> > >> I hit this problem as well, which I reported here, a few days ago: > >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/13/222 > > > > Ok, your case shows even more info: > > > > [ 526.024180] divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP > > [ 526.028144] Modules linked in: ipv6 cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave acpi_cpufreq mperf fuse loop dm_mod iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support coretemp kvm_intel kvm cdc_ether pcspkr usbnet shpchp pci_hotplug i2c_i801 i2c_core ioatdma mii crc32c_intel serio_raw microcode lpc_ich mfd_core i7core_edac bnx2 dca edac_core tpm_tis tpm sg tpm_bios rtc_cmos button uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore usb_common sd_mod crc_t10dif edd ext3 mbcache jbd fan processor mptsas mptscsih mptbase scsi_transport_sas scsi_mod thermal thermal_sys hwmon > > [ 526.028145] CPU 9 > > [ 526.028145] Pid: 2235, comm: flush-8:0 Not tainted 3.6.0-rc1-tglx-hotplug-0.0.0.28.36b5ec9-default #1 IBM IBM System x -[7870C4Q]-/68Y8033 > > [ 526.028145] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811276f6>] [<ffffffff811276f6>] bdi_dirty_limit+0x66/0xc0 > > [ 526.028145] RSP: 0018:ffff8811530bfcc0 EFLAGS: 00010206 > > [ 526.028145] RAX: 0000000000b9877e RBX: 00000000001a8112 RCX: 28f5c28f5c28f5c3 > > [ 526.028145] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000b9877e RDI: 0000000000000000 > > > > %rax contains something != 0 but %rdi definitely is 0. > > > > Yep.. So I tried putting a BUG_ON(!den) in fprop_fraction_percpu() to > catch if we really got the code wrong somehow.. but unfortunately, with > that added, I haven't been successful in reproducing the bug :( Will you test such a line? At least the generic do_div() only uses the lower 32bits for division. WARN_ON(!(den & 0xffffffff)); Thanks, Fengguang -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>