Re: list corruption in the last few days. (block ? crypto ?)

[Pekka Enberg]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf
<markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2011.08.04 at 21:00 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>> Sometime in the last week, something was merged which causes my laptop
>> to lock up occasionally.  I can trigger it most of the time just by
>> doing a kernel build. When it gets to the final linking stage, it locks up hard.
>>
>> I finally managed to coax something out of usb console to get the traces below,
>> which seem to implicate something in the block layer ?
>>
>> my root device is an lvm volume on an dmcrypt'd block dev, which might be relevant,
>> as I don't see this happening on other machines with simpler setups.
>>
>> I'm going to try bisecting, but it might take me a few days, because it's
>> such a pain in the ass to reproduce this reliably.
>>
>> [ 5913.233035] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> [ 5913.233097] WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:53 __list_del_entry+0x8d/0x98()
>> [ 5913.233101] Hardware name: Adamo 13
>> [ 5913.233105] list_del corruption. prev->next should be ffffea000434fd20, but was ffffea0004199520
>
> See also: http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/3/37

That's in networking so SLUB lockless patches are almost certainly the
issue here. Is this with SLUB debugging enabled or not? Christoph, it
like the partial lists are getting corrupted somehow.

                                Pekka
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