Bob Picco wrote: [Wed Oct 01 2014, 07:51:08AM EDT] > Hi, > David Miller wrote: [Tue Sep 30 2014, 10:29:00PM EDT] > > I assume this booted all the way to a login prompt or similar? > Yes. I just cloned sparc.git during VPN and proxy quiet period. > I'll attempt to hang on to T5-8 until we conclude :) We seem to encounter the spec-jbb like issue under heavy threaded make of sparc.git with our work. A similar load had no issue on local T5-2 and T4-2. It raised its ugly head quickly on T5-8. It could be painful to pursue on T5-8. Last night I was pondering whether it might be slab related for spec-jbb. Though I've not flushed these thoughts thoroughly in or out. I'm in pursuit! Bloody dentist today. [root@ca-qasparc24 ~]# Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference BUG: Bad page map in process cc1 pte:9800003fdd860690 pmd:183f3f4b6000 page:000600007fbb0c00 count:107055216 mapcount:-524287 mapping: (null) index:0xfff8000107659c00 page flags: 0x6c4b6e00004f56(error|referenced|dirty|active|owner_priv_1|arch_1|reserved|private|head) page dumped because: bad pte addr:0000000000124000 vm_flags:00000875 anon_vma: (null) mapping:fff8003f18a06a78 index:12 vma->vm_ops->fault: filemap_fault+0x8/0x440 vma->vm_file->f_op->mmap: ext4_file_mmap+0x8/0x40 [ext4] CPU: 497 PID: 19886 Comm: cc1 Tainted: G L 3.17.0-rc7 #1 Call Trace: [0000000000567394] print_bad_pte+0x134/0x1e0 [000000000056ade0] zap_pte_range+0x4c0/0x580 [000000000056afd4] unmap_page_range+0x134/0x220 [000000000056b11c] unmap_single_vma+0x5c/0xc0 [000000000056b1a8] unmap_vmas+0x28/0x60 [000000000056e248] exit_mmap+0x88/0x160 [0000000000465c74] mmput+0x54/0xe0 [00000000004691bc] exit_mm+0x13c/0x1c0 [000000000046a750] do_exit+0x130/0x440 [000000000046aa90] do_group_exit+0x30/0xc0 [000000000046ab3c] SyS_exit_group+0x1c/0x40 [0000000000406234] linux_sparc_syscall+0x34/0x44 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html