Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:48:08 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.25-git2: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff |
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On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > BTW. I haven't see this without suspend/resume cycle, do you, Rafael? It > doesn't mean anything, since it needs longer time to trigger, but anyway, it > might be a clue.
There's a separate (and very different-looking) bug-report about the atl1 driver having problems when doing an "ifconfig down" on it. In fact, the problem report says:
> With this commit in tree, I can reproduce either > a) kmalloc-2048 corruption after initscripts shutdown eth0 > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120820360221261&w=2 > > b) or oopses at filp_close() first reported long ago > (sorry, can't find that email)
where that "or oopses at filp_close()" thing is somewhat interesting, since your original bug was about something that looked like file pointer corruption.
Now, I doubt you have an ATL chip, and I doubt the two are _really_ related in any way (the ATL bug was actually triggered by enabling 64-bit DMA), but the filp_close thing makes me go "hmm".
The two affected corrupted SLUB areas were the 2kB allocation (1560-byte ethernet packets plus skb_shared_info overhead, anyone?) and apparently the one that filp's are in (perhaps a 20-byte TCP ACK packet or other "small" packet + the skb_shared_info overhead would be a common case that might be in that 200-byte range?)
Maybe the ATL bug isn't ATL-specific at all, but somehow connected to NETIF_F_HIGHDMA. Do you have 4GB+ of RAM?
And one thing that suspend/resume does, which is not necessarily commonly done during normal operation, is that ifconfig down/up pattern. Maybe there is something broken in general there?
Linus
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