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SubjectRe: [Bug #11035] System hangs on 2.6.26-rc8
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Hi.

On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 09:11 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Roman Mindalev <lists@r000n.net> wrote:
>
> > I done bisection.
> > Result below:
> >
> > 8f46924600e30b140445f5b84abe9b80d2fff5fb is first bad commit
> > commit 8f46924600e30b140445f5b84abe9b80d2fff5fb
> > Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > Date: Wed Jan 30 13:34:09 2008 +0100
> >
> > x86: enable CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC more widely
> >
> > make CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC universally available.
> >
> > CONFIG_HIBERNATION and CONFIG_HUGETLBFS was disabling it, for no
> > particular reason.
>
> as far as i can see you see a lockup under certain circumstances, right?
>
> this debug option catches use-after-free and other types of invalid
> memory accesses. When it catches a bug the kernel most likely crashes
> and produces a backlog. Because you are in graphical mode that is not
> visible.
>
> This would possibly be debuggable if you set up netconsole logging to
> another system on a local LAN - see
> Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt.
>
> Vegard - would it be possible to make DEBUG_PAGEALLOC faults single-shot
> and non-fatal, just like kmemcheck does it? That way people would see a
> nice kernel message instead of an immediate crash. That means we'd have
> to find a reliable filter for DEBUG_PAGEALLOC-provoked pagefaults though
> ...

Not that it matters now, but that original commit message was wrong -
CONFIG_HIBERNATION used to be incompatible with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
because [u]swsusp didn't (until very recently) handle the fact that
DEBUG_SLAB unmaps empty pages on x86.

Regards,

Nigel



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