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SubjectRe: 2.6.12-rc6-mm1
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On Friday 05 August 2005 00:28, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> > Dominik Karall <dominik.karall@gmx.net> wrote:
> > > On Friday 29 July 2005 23:27, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > Dominik Karall <dominik.karall@gmx.net> wrote:
> > > > > On Friday 29 July 2005 20:22, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > > > Dominik Karall <dominik.karall@gmx.net> wrote:
> > > > > > > On Friday 29 July 2005 06:54, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > > > > > Dominik Karall <dominik.karall@gmx.net> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 13:29, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches
> > > > > > > > > >/2.6/2 .6.1 2-rc 6/2. 6.12-rc6-mm1/
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > After looking in my dmesg output today, I saw following
> > > > > > > > > error with 2.6.12-rc6-mm1, maybe it's usefull to you. I
> > > > > > > > > don't know when it exactly happens, cause I never used mono
> > > > > > > > > last time, I just did an emerge mono on my gentoo system,
> > > > > > > > > maybe this forced the failure.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > note: mono[26736] exited with preempt_count 1
> > > > > > > > > scheduling while atomic: mono/0x10000001/26736
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Call Trace:<ffffffff803e13ea>{schedule+122}
> > > > > > > > > <ffffffff8013197b>{vprintk+635}
> > > > > > > > > <ffffffff803e2738>{cond_resched+56}
> > > > > > > > > <ffffffff80164de3>{unmap_vmas+1587}
> > > > > > > > > <ffffffff8016a560>{exit_mmap+128}
> > > > > > > > > <ffffffff8012e7bf>{mmput+31}
> > > > > > > > > <ffffffff80133466>{do_exit+438}
> > > > > > > > > <ffffffff8013bf25>{__dequeue_signal+501}
> > > > > > > > > <ffffffff801340c8>{do_group_exit+280}
> > > > > > > > > <ffffffff8013e147>{get_signal_to_deliver+1575}
> > > > > > > > > <ffffffff8010de92>{do_signal+162}
> > > > > > > > > <ffffffff8012d1e0>{default_wake_function+0}
> > > > > > > > > <ffffffff8010e8e1>{sys_rt_sigreturn+577}
> > > > > > > > > <ffffffff8010eb3f>{sysret_signal+28}
> > > > > > > > > <ffffffff8010ee27>{ptregscall_common+103}
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > A couple of people reported this, but all seems to have gone
> > > > > > > > quiet. Is it fixed in later -mm's? Is 2.6.13-rc4 running
> > > > > > > > OK?
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Thanks.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > hi andrew!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I'm sorry, but it's not fixed in current 2.6.13-rc3-mm3. I did
> > > > > > > an emerge mono right now to test it, and I got this one:
> > > > > > > Jul 29 15:26:37 [kernel] note: mono[11138] exited with
> > > > > > > preempt_count 1 Jul 29 15:26:50 [kernel] file[14627]: segfault
> > > > > > > at 00002aaaab453000 rip 00002aaaaaf652cf rsp 00007fffffe43b50
> > > > > > > error 4
> > > > > > > Jul 29 15:26:50 [kernel] file[14633]: segfault at
> > > > > > > 00002aaaab453000 rip 00002aaaaaf652cf rsp 00007fffffcc87a0
> > > > > > > error 4
> > > > > > > Jul 29 15:26:51 [kernel] file[14669]: segfault at
> > > > > > > 00002aaaab453000 rip 00002aaaaaf652cf rsp 00007fffff905f80
> > > > > > > error 4
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > DEBUG_KERNEL/ PREEMPT/ SPINLOCK are enabled, but I didn't get
> > > > > > > more info about the bug. Did I forget any debug option?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Gee, I don't know how to find this one. Do you know if the
> > > > > > problem is specific to -mm?
> > > > >
> > > > > Tested with 2.6.13-rc4 and it seems to work. Didn't get any error.
> > > >
> > > > Great, thanks for that.
> > > >
> > > > > So it seems to be -mm related. Do you suspect any patch which could
> > > > > cause the error?
> > > >
> > > > I wouldn't know, sorry. Possible the scheduler patches, possibly an
> > > > x86_64-specific patch. Is the problem repeatable? If so, a binary
> > > > search would only take ten build-n-boots ;)
> > >
> > > Yes, it is repeatable. I tested on lastest -mm about 4 times. Ok, I
> > > will try to find the right patch tomorrow, 10 build-n-boots would end
> > > up in morning ;)
> > >
> > > btw, as the error occured in 2.6.12-rc6-mm1 too, it must be an old
> > > patch which wasn't merged to linus tree till now...hope there aren't a
> > > lot of them :)
> >
> > Any progress on this? It kinda measn that the whole of the -mm lineup is
> > stuck until we can identify the offending patch. We have a couple of
> > weeks in which to do this but if you can identify the bad patch it'd help
> > enormously, thanks.
>
> OK, Bartosz Taudul tells me that he's occasionally seeing this on stock
> 2.6.12 (thanks!). So there's not a lot of point in doing the -mm bisection
> search.
>
> I think Ingo was planning on coming up with some infrastructure which would
> allow us to debug this further.

I'm sorry that I couldn't do the tests earlier, but I had no time this week. I
did some tests now and noticed that the bug only occures when kde is
running...weird.
I'm going to continue testing tomorrow after work, exactly in 12 hours ;)

I will let you know if I have any news!

dominik
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