Re: [bug] SLOB crash, 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-15 Thread Dave Haywood
Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On Thursday 15 November 2007 21:43, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> >>> * David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> From: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:37:13 -0600 >

Re: [bug] SLOB crash, 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-15 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 15 November 2007 21:43, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:37:13 -0600 > > > > > > > No, the usual strategy for debugging problems -out

Re: [bug] SLOB crash, 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-15 Thread Nick Piggin
On Thursday 15 November 2007 22:28, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyway, I'm really happy to see you're testing and using SLOB upstream > > > > :) Is there any particular reason that you're using it? > > i sometimes test SLOB for -rt, but this time it's the res

Re: [bug] SLOB crash, 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-15 Thread Ingo Molnar
* David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah I wish udev would just leave the damn devices alone. > > It even does things like try to rename a network device to the same > name it already has, and other strange stuff. > > But that log difference is a good clue. > > Because udev can try to

Re: [bug] SLOB crash, 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-15 Thread David Miller
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:03:25 +0100 > now that it's reproducible again i'll try more direct debugging. > (Networking might not even be the cause of this - that was just a quick > first impression that i had.) > > Btw., the .config is the result of automat

Re: [bug] SLOB crash, 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-15 Thread Nick Piggin
On Thursday 15 November 2007 21:43, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:37:13 -0600 > > > > > No, the usual strategy for debugging problems -outside- SLOB is to > > > switch to another allocator with

Re: [bug] SLOB crash, 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-15 Thread David Miller
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:43:32 +0100 > The crash logs contain this: > > VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. > Freeing unused kernel memory: 396k freed > Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 2056k > udev: renamed network interface eth1 to

Re: [bug] SLOB crash, 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-15 Thread Ingo Molnar
* David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:37:13 -0600 > > > No, the usual strategy for debugging problems -outside- SLOB is to > > switch to another allocator with more extensive debugging facilities. > > Ok, so the thing we s

Re: [bug] SLOB crash, 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-14 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 03:41:43PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:37:13 -0600 > > > No, the usual strategy for debugging problems -outside- SLOB is to > > switch to another allocator with more extensive debugging facilities. > > Ok,

Re: [bug] SLOB crash, 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-14 Thread David Miller
From: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:37:13 -0600 > No, the usual strategy for debugging problems -outside- SLOB is to > switch to another allocator with more extensive debugging facilities. Ok, so the thing we still can do is do a dump_stack() at the list debugging ass

Re: [bug] SLOB crash, 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-14 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 03:10:13PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:53:36 -0600 > > > He hit the bug using SLOB and there are no kmem (or any other) caches > > in SLOB. > > That's unfortunate, is there any user tracking facility at >

Re: [bug] SLOB crash, 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-14 Thread David Miller
From: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:53:36 -0600 > He hit the bug using SLOB and there are no kmem (or any other) caches > in SLOB. That's unfortunate, is there any user tracking facility at all? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: [bug] SLOB crash, 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-14 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 02:39:38PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:05:01 +0100 > > > the bug went away - and the only thing i did was a networking config > > tweak. So maybe something in networking corrupts memory? > > This wouldn't

Re: [bug] SLOB crash, 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-14 Thread David Miller
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:05:01 +0100 > the bug went away - and the only thing i did was a networking config > tweak. So maybe something in networking corrupts memory? This wouldn't surprise me at all. I think we can make some headway on this bug, the next

Re: [bug] SLOB crash, 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-14 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 08:05:01PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > [ 61.245190] rc.sysinit used greatest stack depth: 1680 bytes left > > > > [ 61.386859] list_add corruption. prev->next should be next > > > > (407d973c), but was 418cf818. (p

Re: [bug] SLOB crash, 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [ 61.245190] rc.sysinit used greatest stack depth: 1680 bytes left > > > [ 61.386859] list_add corruption. prev->next should be next (407d973c), > > > but was 418cf818. (prev=41877098). > > > [ 61.396328] [ cut here ]

Re: [bug] SLOB crash, 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-14 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 11:36:11AM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:20:01PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > there's a new SLOB regression - the attached config crashes with: > > > > [ 61.245190] rc.sysinit used greatest stack depth: 1680 bytes left > > [ 61.386859] li

Re: [bug] SLOB crash, 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-14 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:20:01PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > there's a new SLOB regression - the attached config crashes with: > > [ 61.245190] rc.sysinit used greatest stack depth: 1680 bytes left > [ 61.386859] list_add corruption. prev->next should be next (407d973c), but > was 418cf8