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SubjectRe: 2.6.10-bkcurr: major slab corruption preventing booting on ARM
Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:10:49PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
>
>>On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:43:50PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
>>
>>>I've had a report from a fellow ARM hacker of their platform not
>>>booting. After they turned on slab debugging, they saw (pieced
>>>together from a report on IRC):
>>>
>>>Freeing init memory: 104K
>>>run_init_process(/bin/bash)
>>>Slab corruption: start=c0010934, len=160
>>>Last user: [<c00adc54>](d_alloc+0x28/0x2d8)
>>>
>>>I've just run up 2.6.10-bkcurr on a different ARM platform, and
>>>encountered the following output. It looks like there's serious
>>>slab corruption issues in these kernels.
>>>
>>>I'll dig a little further into the report below to see if there's
>>>anything obvious.
>>
>>Ok, reverting the pud_t patch fixes both these problems (the exact
>>patch can be found at: http://www.home.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/misc/bk4-bk5
>>Note that this is not a plain bk4-bk5 patch, but just the pud_t
>>changes brought forward to bk6 or there abouts.)
>>
>>So, something in the 4 level page table patches is causing random
>>scribbling in kernel memory.
>
>
> Ok, I've narrowed the problem down to something in the following patch.
> Andi Kleen suggests that maybe the ARM FIRST_USER_PGD_NR got broken in
> by something here. Nick, any ideas?
>

I see you've had a fix commited to -bk? Yes that looks like it would
cause the problems you are seeing.

Thanks,
Nick
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