Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 Kernel panic - not syncing: Can't createpid_1 cachep

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:27:34 +0530
Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> > Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> >
> > The creation of this cache consists of allocating ~30
> > bytes and creating a new kmem cache. This looks strange
> > that one of these allocation falied...
> >
> > Could you please check what has happened with this patch:
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
> > index d267775..9d594eb 100644
> > --- a/kernel/pid.c
> > +++ b/kernel/pid.c
> > @@ -458,15 +458,22 @@ static struct kmem_cache *create_pid_cac
> >             goto out;
> >
> >     pcache = kmalloc(sizeof(struct pid_cache), GFP_KERNEL);
> > -    if (pcache == NULL)
> > +    if (pcache == NULL) {
> > +        printk("Can't alloc pcache size %d\n",
> > +                sizeof(struct pid_cache));
> >         goto err_alloc;
> > +    }
> >
> >     snprintf(pcache->name, sizeof(pcache->name), "pid_%d", nr_ids);
> >     cachep = kmem_cache_create(pcache->name,
> >             sizeof(struct pid) + (nr_ids - 1) * sizeof(struct upid),
> >             0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL);
> > -    if (cachep == NULL)
> > +    if (cachep == NULL) {
> > +        printk("Can't create cachep size %d\n",
> > +                sizeof(struct pid) +
> > +                (nr_ids - 1) * sizeof(struct upid));
> >         goto err_cachep;
> > +    }
> >
> >     pcache->nr_ids = nr_ids;
> >     pcache->cachep = cachep;
> >
> >
> >
> >> Hi Andrew,
> >>
> >> Following Kernel panic is raised while booting up with 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 
> >> kernel.
> >>
> >> ============================================================
> >> Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> >> Initializing HighMem for node 0 (00038000:001fbe00)
> >> Initializing HighMem for node 1 (00200000:003fbe00)
> >> Initializing HighMem for node 2 (00400000:005fbe00)
> >> Initializing HighMem for node 3 (00600000:007fbe00)
> >> Memory: 32480436k/33554432k available (2146k kernel code, 278984k 
> >> reserved, 1203k data, 216k init, 31842304k highmem)
> >> virtual kernel memory layout:
> >>    fixmap  : 0xffe1a000 - 0xfffff000   (1940 kB)
> >>    pkmap   : 0xffc00000 - 0xffe00000   (2048 kB)
> >>    vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xffbfe000   ( 115 MB)
> >>    lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000   ( 896 MB)
> >>      .init : 0xc134c000 - 0xc1382000   ( 216 kB)
> >>      .data : 0xc12189e1 - 0xc1345758   (1203 kB)
> >>      .text : 0xc1000000 - 0xc12189e1   (2146 kB)
> >> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor 
> >> mode... Ok.
> >> SLUB: Genslabs=12, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=16, CPUs=16, 
> >> Nodes=16
> >> Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 1401.55 BogoMIPS 
> >> (lpj=2803105)
> >> Kernel panic - not syncing: Can't create pid_1 cachep
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks & Regards,
> >> Kamalesh Babulal.
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> after applying the patch, kernel panic looks like this
> ===============================================================================
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> Initializing HighMem for node 0 (00038000:001fbe00)
> Initializing HighMem for node 1 (00200000:003fbe00)
> Initializing HighMem for node 2 (00400000:005fbe00)
> Initializing HighMem for node 3 (00600000:007fbe00)
> Memory: 32479372k/33554432k available (2635k kernel code, 280048k 
> reserved, 1282k data, 216k init, 31842304k highmem)
> virtual kernel memory layout:
>     fixmap  : 0xffe1a000 - 0xfffff000   (1940 kB)
>     pkmap   : 0xffc00000 - 0xffe00000   (2048 kB)
>     vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xffbfe000   ( 115 MB)
>     lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000   ( 896 MB)
>       .init : 0xc13da000 - 0xc1410000   ( 216 kB)
>       .data : 0xc1292f51 - 0xc13d3758   (1282 kB)
>       .text : 0xc1000000 - 0xc1292f51   (2635 kB)
> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
> SLUB: Genslabs=12, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=16, CPUs=16, Nodes=16
> Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 1401.55 BogoMIPS 
> (lpj=2803109)
> Can't alloc pcache size 32
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Can't create pid_1 cachep
> 

That's stupid.  Could be a startup ordering problem, but I can't spot it.

Please try setting CONFIG_SLUB=n, CONFIG_SLAB=y and then retest, thanks.
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