Re: [bug] SCSI/SLUB - latest -git: WARNING: at mm/slub.c:2443kmem_cache_destroy, scsi_put_host_cmd_pool()

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Apr 19 2008 - 06:44:19 EST



* Pekka J Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > [ 47.370972] [<c01b1a62>] kmem_cache_destroy+0xf8/0x102
> > [ 47.377727] [<c09dab7f>] scsi_put_host_cmd_pool+0x42/0x58
> > [ 47.382973] [<c09db1b4>] scsi_destroy_command_freelist+0x54/0x5c
> > [ 47.386972] [<c09db2ef>] scsi_host_dev_release+0x79/0xa9
> > [ 47.394973] [<c067ee95>] device_release+0x3e/0x54
> > [ 47.398974] [<c04e0e62>] kobject_release+0x45/0x55
> > [ 47.405383] [<c04e0e1d>] ? kobject_release+0x0/0x55
> > [ 47.409513] [<c04e1968>] kref_put+0x3e/0x49
> > [ 47.414975] [<c04e0d8d>] kobject_put+0x19/0x1b
> > [ 47.418975] [<c067f44e>] put_device+0x16/0x18
> > [ 47.422975] [<c09db274>] scsi_host_put+0x12/0x14
> > [ 47.426975] [<c09db3dc>] scsi_unregister+0x1d/0x20
> > [ 47.433383] [<c1ceddcc>] aha1542_detect+0x7db/0x7f5
> > [ 47.438977] [<c01698aa>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0xd
> > [ 47.442976] [<c1ceddf1>] ? init_this_scsi_driver+0xb/0xd0
> > [ 47.450666] [<c1cede44>] init_this_scsi_driver+0x5e/0xd0
> > [ 47.454978] [<c1c944db>] kernel_init+0x152/0x2b0
> > [ 47.458978] [<c1c94389>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x2b0
> > [ 47.465249] [<c1c94389>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x2b0
> > [ 47.469258] [<c01199c3>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
> > [ 47.474978] =======================
> > [ 47.478980] ---[ end trace 778e504de7e3b1e3 ]---
> > [ 47.483297] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> >
> > config and bootlog at:
> >
> > http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Sat_Apr_19_10_28_28_CEST_2008.bad
> > http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/log-Sat_Apr_19_10_28_28_CEST_2008.bad
> >
> > [a few .config options were turned off: just accept all the defaults
> > after 'make oldconfig']
>
> I couldn't spot anything in particular in SLUB which makes me think
> SCSI code simply didn't free all objects before
> scsi_put_host_cmd_pool() called kmem_cache_destroy() to kill the
> cache.
>
> James, does this make sense or should I just look at SLUB harder?

yesterday's x86.git auto-qa passed fine with hundreds of successful
builds and bootups so SLUB cannot be the culprit - i think it's more
likely the SCSI layer changes that were pulled last night.

Ingo
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