Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:35:13 -0400 | Subject | Re: Linus GIT 3.17.0+ - BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request - IP: [<ffffffff81109e8d>] scan_block+0x59/0x100 | From | Miles Lane <> |
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote: > Hi Miles, > > On 15 October 2014 04:43, Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com> wrote: >> [ 68.164917] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88021dc52000 >> [ 68.164957] IP: [<ffffffff81109e8d>] scan_block+0x59/0x100 >> [ 68.164987] PGD 2902067 PUD 2905067 PMD 21fdf2067 PTE 800000021dc52060 > > My reading of the x86 _PAGE_BIT_* macros show that this is not present. > >> [ 68.165020] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC > > And this could be caused by CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, though kmemleak > should not try to access such memory. > >> [ 68.165945] Call Trace: >> [ 68.165960] [<ffffffff81528559>] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x48/0x52 >> [ 68.165988] [<ffffffff8110a016>] ? scan_gray_list+0xe2/0x15f >> [ 68.166015] [<ffffffff81109feb>] scan_gray_list+0xb7/0x15f >> [ 68.166040] [<ffffffff8110a32f>] kmemleak_scan+0x29c/0x466 >> [ 68.166066] [<ffffffff8110a84d>] ? kmemleak_write+0x354/0x354 >> [ 68.166092] [<ffffffff8110a8cf>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x82/0xa4 > > I have a couple of questions: > > 1. Are there any messages prior to the dump you posted, like kmemleak > getting disabled?
There are no indications of problems with kmemleak before the BUG. This is all I see:
[ 5.111054] kmemleak: Kernel memory leak detector initialized [ 5.111062] kmemleak: Automatic memory scanning thread started
> 2. Can you still reproduce the problem with !CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC?
When I disable this option, the BUG does not occur.
> Thanks, > > Catalin
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