Re: [BUG][Resend] 2.6.12-rc3-mm3: Kernel BUG at "mm/slab.c":1219 [update]

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue May 10 2005 - 17:17:11 EST


On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 03:01:13PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > > + . = ALIGN(32);
> >
> > This should be . = ALIGN(CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES)
> >
> > It was wrong on i386 already btw, which needs the same.
>
> i386 always specifies the numbers and does not use symbolic constants.
> We better leave that as it is.

That's broken then and needs to be fixed.

>
> > > + /* Rarely changed data like cpu maps */
> > > + . = ALIGN(4096);
> >
> > Does it really need an 4096 byte alignment? That seems like
> > a waste of memory. Cache line alignment should be enough.
>
> Ok.

Looks good.

-Andi

>
> Index: linux-2.6.11/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.11.orig/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S 2005-05-10 13:35:25.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.11/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S 2005-05-10 13:59:18.000000000 -0700
> @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ SECTIONS
> }
>
> /* rarely changed data like cpu maps */
> - . = ALIGN(4096);
> + . = ALIGN(32);
> .data.mostly_readonly : AT(ADDR(.data.mostly_readonly) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
> *(.data.mostly_readonly)
> }
> Index: linux-2.6.11/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.11.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S 2005-05-10 13:35:24.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.11/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S 2005-05-10 14:02:06.000000000 -0700
> @@ -42,6 +42,13 @@ SECTIONS
> CONSTRUCTORS
> }
>
> + . = ALIGN(CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES);
> + .data.cacheline_aligned : { (.data.cacheline_aligned) }
> +
> + /* Rarely changed data like cpu maps */
> + . = ALIGN(CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES);
> + .data.mostly_readonly : { *(.data.mostly_readonly) }
> +
> _edata = .; /* End of data section */
>
> __bss_start = .; /* BSS */
-
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