Sachin Sant wrote:
Today's next tree failed to boot on a POWER 6 box with :
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kernel BUG at mm/mmap.c:2135!
Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#2]
SMP NR_CPUS=1024 NUMA pSeries
Problem exists with today's next as well.
Likely cause for this problem seems to the following commit.
If i revert this patch the machine boots fine.
commit a0668cdc154e54bf0c85182e0535eea237d53146
powerpc/mm: Cleanup management of kmem_caches for pagetables
Thanks
-Sachin
Modules linked in: ibmvscsic scsi_transport_srp scsi_tgt scsi_mod
NIP: c00000000014e30c LR: c00000000014e2f8 CTR: c00000000014db88
REGS: c0000000db703620 TRAP: 0700 Tainted: G D
(2.6.32-rc5-autotest-next-20091102)
MSR: 8000000000029032 <EE,ME,CE,IR,DR> CR: 24022442 XER: 2000000c
TASK = c0000000db7f6fe0[76] 'init' THREAD: c0000000db700000 CPU: 1
GPR00: 0000000000000001 c0000000db7038a0 c000000000b19900
0000000000000000
GPR04: c0000000db406a40 000000000000000c c0000000fe10c370
c000000000bb2800
GPR08: 000000000000db40 0000000000000000 c0000000dfdc0e00
000000000000000c
GPR12: 0000000044022442 c000000000bb2800 00000000ffffffff
ffffffffffffffff
GPR16: 0000000008430000 00000000003c0000 c0000000db703ea0
c0000000db569108
GPR20: c0000000db568908 0000000000000000 c0000000db703d60
0000000000000000
GPR24: 0000000000000001 0000000000040100 c0000000fe503580
c0000000db1ac180
GPR28: 0000000000000000 c000000000f812d0 c000000000a84f00
0000000000000000
NIP [c00000000014e30c] .exit_mmap+0x190/0x1b8
LR [c00000000014e2f8] .exit_mmap+0x17c/0x1b8
Call Trace:
[c0000000db7038a0] [c00000000014e2f8] .exit_mmap+0x17c/0x1b8 (unreliable)
[c0000000db703950] [c0000000000916cc] .mmput+0x54/0x164
[c0000000db7039e0] [c0000000000968d8] .exit_mm+0x17c/0x1a0
[c0000000db703a90] [c000000000098cb8] .do_exit+0x248/0x784
[c0000000db703b70] [c0000000000992a8] .do_group_exit+0xb4/0xe8
[c0000000db703c00] [c0000000000aca2c] .get_signal_to_deliver+0x3ec/0x478
[c0000000db703cf0] [c0000000000134ac] .do_signal+0x6c/0x31c
[c0000000db703e30] [c000000000008b7c] do_work+0x24/0x28
Instruction dump:
7c8407b4 387d0018 4800ab11 60000000 939d0008 7fe3fb78 4bfffdbd 7c7f1b79
4082fff4 e81b00e8 3120ffff 7c090110 <0b000000> 382100b0 e8010010 eb61ffd8
---[ end trace ec052ac77a8e7cb4 ]---
Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!
mm/mmap.c:2135 corresponds to :
BUG_ON(mm->nr_ptes > (FIRST_USER_ADDRESS+PMD_SIZE-1)>>PMD_SHIFT);
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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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