2.6.29-rc7-git2 : crash in kmem_list3_init()

[Sachin P. Sant]

Sachin P. Sant wrote:
> sure if this is a new problem or a recurring one. Will try booting
> some older kernels on this box and will report the results.
I tried few older kernels till 2.6.28 and all of them had the
same problem.

I also tried using SLUB instead of SLAB. That also failed to
boot with following trace.

Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0xc000000070001030
Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000011c7e0
cpu 0x0: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c000000000ac39a0]
    pc: c00000000011c7e0: .new_slab+0x2b8/0x33c
    lr: c00000000011c7dc: .new_slab+0x2b4/0x33c
    sp: c000000000ac3c20
   msr: 8000000000009032
   dar: c000000070001030
 dsisr: 42000000
  current = 0xc0000000009ea4b0
  paca    = 0xc000000000b53480
    pid   = 0, comm = swapper
enter ? for help
[c000000000ac3cc0] c00000000011dc28 .kmem_cache_open+0x1a4/0x448
[c000000000ac3d90] c00000000011f5dc .create_kmalloc_cache+0x78/0x100
[c000000000ac3e40] c000000000948bec .kmem_cache_init+0x8c/0x1c8
[c000000000ac3ee0] c000000000920a5c .start_kernel+0x360/0x480
[c000000000ac3f90] c0000000000083d8 .start_here_common+0x1c/0x44

Complete dmesg log attached. Is there anything else i can try ?

Thanks
-Sachin

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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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