Re: [boot crash #2] Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v2.6.39-rc1

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Thu Mar 24 2011 - 15:27:20 EST


On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> > RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810570a9>]  [<ffffffff810570a9>] get_next_timer_interrupt+0x119/0x260
>>
>> That's a typical timer crash, but you were unable to debug it with
>> debugobjects because commit d3f661d6 broke those.
>>
>> Christoph, debugobjects do not need to run with interupts
>> disabled. And just because they were in that section to keep all the
>> debug stuff together does not make an excuse for not looking at the
>> code and just slopping it into some totally unrelated ifdef along with
>> a completely bogus comment.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  mm/slub.c |    4 ++--
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c
>> +++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
>> @@ -849,11 +849,11 @@ static inline void slab_free_hook(struct
>>               local_irq_save(flags);
>>               kmemcheck_slab_free(s, x, s->objsize);
>>               debug_check_no_locks_freed(x, s->objsize);
>> -             if (!(s->flags & SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS))
>> -                     debug_check_no_obj_freed(x, s->objsize);
>>               local_irq_restore(flags);
>>       }
>>  #endif
>> +     if (!(s->flags & SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS))
>> +             debug_check_no_obj_freed(x, s->objsize);
>
> Thanks, this did the trick!
>
> Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
>
> With this fix i got the warning below - pinpointing a net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
> timer bug.

Applied, thanks!
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