[powerpc] Next tree Nov 2 : kernel BUG at mm/mmap.c:2135!

[Sachin Sant]

David Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 06:08:44PM +0530, Sachin Sant wrote:
>   
>> Sachin Sant wrote:
>>     
>>> Today's next tree failed to boot on a POWER 6 box with :
>>>
>>> ------------[ cut here ]------------
>>> 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
>>     
>
> Ugh.  Ok, it's not at all obvious how my patch could cause this bug.
> Can you send your .config?
>
>   
Still present in today's next. 

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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