Re: [PATCH] cpumask: remove cpumask allocation from idle_balance

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Thu Mar 19 2009 - 12:55:34 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

This time for sure,
not so sure:

[ 4.303068] =============================================================================
[ 4.303332] BUG idr_layer_cache: Redzone overwritten
[ 4.303332] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ 4.303332] [ 4.303332] INFO: 0xffff88003f838958-0xffff88003f83895f. First byte 0xa1 instead of 0xbb
[ 4.303332] INFO: Allocated in 0xffff88003f9b94b0 age=4294878587 cpu=2 pid=0
[ 4.303332] INFO: Freed in 0xffff88003f8389f0 age=18446744073709463001 cpu=4294967295 pid=0
[ 4.303332] INFO: Slab 0xffffe200015d5340 objects=13 used=10 fp=0xffff88003f838738 flags=0x40000000000020c3
[ 4.303332] INFO: Object 0xffff88003f838738 @offset=1848 fp=0x(null)

hm, i'm seeing this even with the cpus4096 bits removed.

It _seems_ to trigger when i add these two commits:

71ff49d: x86: with the last user gone, remove set_pte_present
b40c757: x86/32: no need to use set_pte_present in set_pte_vaddr

but i'm not completely sure it's related, i tried a bisection and it showed heisenbug properties.

Might have come from upstream, that saw some IDR changes recently.

Seems very unlikely; those patches only touch 32-bit only code, and this looks like a 64-bit crash.

J
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