2.6.19: kernel BUG in hugepd_page at arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c:58!

[Adam Litke]

On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 14:57 -0500, Sonny Rao wrote:
> (Apologies if this is a re-post)
> 
> Hi, I was running 2.6.19 and running some benchmarks using
> libhugetlbfs (1.0.1) and I can fairly reliably trigger this bug:

Is this triggered by a libhugetlbfs test case?  If so, which one?

> 
> kernel BUG in hugepd_page at arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c:58!
> 
> 6:mon> e
> cpu 0x6: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c0000002d92c7a10]
>     pc: c000000000030170: .huge_pte_offset+0xa8/0xd8
>     lr: c000000000031024: .hash_huge_page+0x50/0x42c
>     sp: c0000002d92c7c90
>    msr: 8000000000021032
>   current = 0xc0000002da2a19a0
>   paca    = 0xc0000000005b3f80
>     pid   = 24695, comm =
> kernel BUG in hugepd_page at arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c:58!
> 6:mon>
> 6:mon> t
> [link register   ] c000000000031024 .hash_huge_page+0x50/0x42c
> [c0000002d92c7c90] c0000002d92c7d50 (unreliable)
> [c0000002d92c7d50] c00000000002cf80 .hash_page+0x214/0x3bc
> [c0000002d92c7e30] c000000000004834 .do_hash_page+0x34/0x40
> --- Exception: 301 (Data Access) at 000000001009b0cc
> SP (f33bc830) is in userspace
> 6:mon> r
> 
> the bug comes from this code:
> 
> static inline pte_t *hugepd_page(hugepd_t hpd)
> {
>         BUG_ON(!(hpd.pd & HUGEPD_OK));
>         return (pte_t *)(hpd.pd & ~HUGEPD_OK);
> }
> 
> 
> I'm trying to reproduce on 2.6.20-rc3 now, but was wondering if anyone
> has seen this before.
> 
> Sonny
> 
> 
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