Hi, when trying to reproduce a bugreport in bugzilla, I am experiencing panics upon boot. The .config which causes this is at [1]
I'd guess that it's some race - I have tried adding a few debug printk()s into mm/slub.c for __kmalloc_track_caller() and slab_alloc(), and the problem seems to have vanished after this. The panic happens alternatively on the following two traces: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 75646f6d printing eip: c0264b45 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c0264b45>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010002 (2.6.22-rc2-mm1 #82) EIP is at __kmalloc_track_caller+0x4f/0x60 eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000282 ecx: 75646f6d edx: c10705b0 esi: c05602c8 edi: 000000d0 ebp: c02a3cd1 esp: c21c5db8 ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0033 ss: 0068 Process modprobe (pid: 715, ti=c21c4000 task=c23d0af0 task.ti=c21c4000) Stack: c0561500 c2b04d8b c2b04d84 c2b04d84 c2b04d8c 00000008 c0252594 00000000 00000002 c2b04d84 c2b04d84 00000000 00000002 c02a3cd1 c0483012 c2b04d84 41ed4d84 c2b04d84 c2614dc0 c2b04d8c c2614dc0 c02a3e43 00000000 c2614d20 Call Trace: [<c0252594>] kstrdup+0x27/0x46 [<c02a3cd1>] sysfs_new_dirent+0x52/0xde [<c02a3e43>] create_dir+0x78/0x177 [<c02a3f8b>] sysfs_create_dir+0x49/0x63 [<c02dde46>] kobject_shadow_add+0xdc/0x183 [<c02ddfd7>] kobject_register+0x19/0x30 [<c02de12d>] kobject_kset_add_dir+0x46/0x75 [<c02391de>] mod_sysfs_setup+0x2f/0x8e [<c023a8cd>] sys_init_module+0x14c2/0x181e [<c02025fa>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85 [<ffffe410>] 0xffffe410 ======================= INFO: lockdep is turned off. Code: 00 00 00 85 d2 74 06 83 7a 0c 00 75 17 89 54 24 04 83 c9 ff 89 fa 89 f0 89 2c 24 e8 04 e6 ff ff 89 c1 eb 0d 0f b7 42 0a 8b 4a 0c <8b> 04 81 89 42 0c 53 9d 89 c8 5b 5e 5b 5e EIP: [<c0264b45>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x4f/0x60 SS:ESP 0068:c21c5db8 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/rwsem.c:20 in_atomic():0, irqs_disabled():1 INFO: lockdep is turned off. [<c02035ff>] dump_trace+0x68/0x1d9 [<c0203788>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x18/0x2c [<c0204237>] show_trace+0xf/0x11 [<c020424b>] dump_stack+0x12/0x14 [<c022e88a>] down_read+0x15/0x49 [<c023e3e8>] acct_collect+0x38/0x140 [<c021e742>] do_exit+0x1d5/0x747 [<c0203d4c>] die+0x1e2/0x20e [<c03ec148>] do_page_fault+0x476/0x549 [<c03eaa2a>] error_code+0x72/0x78 [<c0264b45>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x4f/0x60 [<c0252594>] kstrdup+0x27/0x46 [<c02a3cd1>] sysfs_new_dirent+0x52/0xde [<c02a3e43>] create_dir+0x78/0x177 [<c02a3f8b>] sysfs_create_dir+0x49/0x63 [<c02dde46>] kobject_shadow_add+0xdc/0x183 [<c02ddfd7>] kobject_register+0x19/0x30 [<c02de12d>] kobject_kset_add_dir+0x46/0x75 [<c02391de>] mod_sysfs_setup+0x2f/0x8e [<c023a8cd>] sys_init_module+0x14c2/0x181e [<c02025fa>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85 [<ffffe410>] 0xffffe410 ======================= and the second one: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 75646f6d printing eip: c0263c14 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#2] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c0263c14>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010002 (2.6.22-rc2-mm1 #82) EIP is at __kmalloc+0x51/0x62 eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000282 ecx: 75646f6d edx: c10705b0 esi: c05602c8 edi: c030a4d6 ebp: 000000d0 esp: c20c3db8 ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0000 ss: 0068 Process kacpid (pid: 40, ti=c20c2000 task=c20841a0 task.ti=c20c2000) Stack: 00000046 43455047 00000007 00000000 00000001 f8808ede c030a4d6 00000003 00000000 c048c578 00000000 c21fc4e0 c21fc4e0 00000000 c030a746 00000000 00000001 00000004 00000040 c20c3e38 f8808ede c21fc4e0 c21fc4e0 c2b49800 Call Trace: [<c030a4d6>] acpi_ex_allocate_name_string+0x36/0xa2 [<c030a746>] acpi_ex_get_name_string+0x137/0x1c1 [<c0305d1e>] acpi_ds_create_operand+0x3a/0x1d6 [<c0305edb>] acpi_ds_create_operands+0x21/0x6e [<c0304ee5>] acpi_ds_exec_end_op+0x76/0x3d1 [<c0313e65>] acpi_ps_parse_loop+0x5b4/0x76f [<c03132a2>] acpi_ps_parse_aml+0x60/0x23d [<c0314520>] acpi_ps_execute_method+0x11b/0x1bb [<c0311841>] acpi_ns_evaluate+0x99/0xf0 [<c03093b5>] acpi_ev_asynch_execute_gpe_method+0xa2/0x108 [<c0302df7>] acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x22/0x30 [<c0228e01>] run_workqueue+0x77/0x121 [<c02296c0>] worker_thread+0xba/0xc6 [<c022bcdd>] kthread+0x38/0x5f [<c020321b>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 ======================= INFO: lockdep is turned off. Code: 00 00 00 85 d2 74 06 83 7a 0c 00 75 17 89 54 24 04 83 c9 ff 89 ea 89 f0 89 3c 24 e8 35 f5 ff ff 89 c1 eb 0d 0f b7 42 0a 8b 4a 0c <8b> 04 81 89 42 0c 53 9d 89 c8 5d 5a 5b 5e EIP: [<c0263c14>] __kmalloc+0x51/0x62 SS:ESP 0068:c20c3db8 (always the same address being dereferenced). [1] http://www.jikos.cz/jikos/junk/.config -- Jiri Kosina - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/