Re: [-next regression] lockdep? tracing? BUG: unable to handlekernel paging request at

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Nov 03 2009 - 12:08:47 EST



* Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 11:02 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > [ Added Peter Zijlstra ]
> >
> > On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 10:48 -0500, Eric Paris wrote:
> > > Linux-next from Oct 30 did not have this problem. Linux next from
> > > yesterday (and today) I always hit this on boot.
> >
> > Could you also give the SHA1 of Linux-next, as well as the config you
> > used.
>
> False alarm, apparently this is due to a patch that I added. Odd part
> is, I don't touch anything even remotely close to this section of
> code. I'm at a bit of a lose, but apply my patch, boom, revert, works.
>
> I'll figure it out eventually I guess.

When i saw your crash earlier today my first guess was memory
corruption: lockdep is one of the first things to blow up on kernel data
structure memory corruption. It tracks all locks and affects everything
so gets hit first.

( Nevertheless we do have fresh changes in the tracing tree so some
genuine lockdep/tracing crash was not implausible either. )

Ingo
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