Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm3

From: Borislav Petkov (petkov_at_uni-muenster.de)
Date: 03/31/05

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    To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Date:	Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:57:03 +0200
    
    
    

    On Thursday 31 March 2005 22:11, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > Borislav Petkov <petkov@uni-muenster.de> wrote:
    > > On Friday 25 March 2005 17:46, Borislav Petkov wrote:
    > > > Hi Andrew,
    > > >
    > > > mm3 still not booting on my machine. Boot option 'nmi_watchdog=2' (my
    > > > cpu is a dual core pentium 4 HT, 2.60 GHz) gets me a bit further in
    > > > the boot process but it blocks there too.
    > > >
    > > > [output retyped from screen]:
    > > > kernel: [ 4.109241] PM: Checking swsusp image.
    > > > kernel: [ 4.109244] PM: Resume from disk failed.
    > > > kernel: [ 4.112220] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
    > > > kernel: [ 4.112465] Freeing unused kernel memory: 188k freed
    > > > kernel: [ 4.142002] logips2pp: Detected unknown logitech mouse
    > > > model 1 kernel: [ 4.274620] input: PS/2 Logitech Mouse on
    > > > isa0060/serio1 <--- [point of previous blocks without boot option
    > > > 'nmi_watchdog=2']---> INIT: version 2.86 booting
    > > > Mounting a tmpfs over /dev... done.
    > > > Creating initial device nodes... done.
    > > > Setting parameters of disc: (none).
    > > > Activating swap.
    > > > kernel: [ 10.712648] Adding 976744k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1
    > > > extents:1 Checking root file system...
    > > > fsck 1.36 (05-Feb-2005)
    > > > /: clean, 127290/1831424 files, 898566/3662056 blocks
    > > > [EOF]
    > >
    > > Hi Andrew,
    > >
    > > i finally got to run kdb within mm3 and I got a bit further but am not
    > > sure whether I'm debugging in the right direction:
    > >
    > > After booting with "kdb=early" I found out that the kernel blocks with
    > > the partial message:
    > >
    > > kmem_cache_create: Early error in slab task_struct
    > > kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:1215
    > > invalid operand: 0000 [#1]
    > > PREEMPT SMP
    >
    > Beats me. Where did the kdb patch come from?
    oss.sgi.com
    > It sounds like kdb for some reason is leaving the calling task in
    > in_interrupt() state when it shouldn't. You could try removing the
    > in_interrupt() test, but things will probably die later on.
    No, that doesn't change anything. It stops at the same point even on mm4 which
    is without the kdb patch.

    > It might be worth disabling preempt, although a bug there won't cause
    > in_interrupt() to return true.
    disabling preempt doesn't change that either. I'll run more kdb sessions
    tomorrow to see what's going on.

    > Did you send me your .config?
    yes, in some of the previous mails but here you go again.

    Regards,
    Boris.

    
    

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