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SubjectRe: Oops when trying to create more than 16000 timers
Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Ottavio,
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Ottavio Campana
> <ottavio.campana@dei.unipd.it> wrote:
>> I am currently developing a software that needs approx 60k timers. I
>> currently use timer_create and all the relative functions to manage timers.
>>
>> I've noticed that after having created 16039 timers I always get an oops
>> from the kernel, which are always of the same kind:
>>
>> Dec 15 15:20:00 evolution kernel: [601680.417064] BUG: unable to handle
>> kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000040 .
>
> This would be a kernel bug so can you please post the full oops. See
> REPORTING-BUGS and Documentation/oops-tracing.txt for details.

I hope the report is correct, please tell me if you want me to do
something else.

PGD 7adfc067 PUD 7ad5e067 PMD 0
CPU 1
Modules linked in: ipv6 dm_snapshot dm_mirror dm_log dm_mod loop e1000
snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm snd_mixer_oss snd_seq_dummy
snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device
parport_pc psmouse iTCO_wdt snd parport i2c_i801 serio_raw soundcore
i2c_core pcspkr snd_page_alloc evdev button intel_agp dcdbas ext3 jbd
mbcache sg sr_mod cdrom sd_mod ata_piix uhci_hcd ehci_hcd e1000e
ide_pci_generic ide_core ata_generic libata scsi_mod dock thermal
processor fan thermal_sys
Pid: 2743, comm: timer_tester Not tainted 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff80245291>] [<ffffffff80245291>]
sys_timer_create+0x79/0x360
RSP: 0018:ffff81007a5ddef8 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000086
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000286
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 00007f927adb3a50 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000016ed768
R13: 00000000016ed6d0 R14: 00007fff833dead0 R15: 00000000016ed754
FS: 00007f927b3cd6e0(0000) GS:ffff81007d37a9c0(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000040 CR3: 000000007b00c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process timer_tester (pid: 2743, threadinfo ffff81007a5dc000, task
ffff81007a7936b0)
Stack: ffff81007646f9f8 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffff8029b4ed
0000000000000000 ffff81007b024c80 0000000000000017 fffffffffffffff7
00007f927b3da000 ffffffff8029ba36 0000000000000292 0000000000000000
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8029b4ed>] vfs_write+0x121/0x156
[<ffffffff8029ba36>] sys_write+0x60/0x6e
[<ffffffff8020beca>] system_call_after_swapgs+0x8a/0x8f


Code: c6 0e 05 00 48 85 c0 74 3b 48 89 c5 e8 d0 a0 ff ff 48 85 c0 48 89
45 40 75 11 48 8b 3d e1 22 3e 00 48 89 ee 31 ed e8 fe 10 05 00 <48> 8b
7d 40 31 f6 ba 80 00 00 00 48 83 c7 18 e8 6b ae 0d 00 48
RIP [<ffffffff80245291>] sys_timer_create+0x79/0x360
RSP <ffff81007a5ddef8>
CR2: 0000000000000040
---[ end trace 2e93d77cdbbd83c6 ]---

Using decodecode

Code: c6 0e 05 00 48 85 c0 74 3b 48 89 c5 e8 d0 a0 ff ff 48 85 c0 48 89
45 40 75 11 48 8b 3d e1 22 3e 00 48 89 ee 31 ed e8 fe 10 05 00 <48> 8b
7d 40 31 f6 ba 80 00 00 00 48 83 c7 18 e8 6b ae 0d 00 48

/tmp/tmp.CcCjFxHOMN.o: file format elf64-x86-64

Disassembly of section .text:

0000000000000000 <.text>:
0: c6 (bad)
1: 0e (bad)
2: 05 00 48 85 c0 add $0xc0854800,%eax
7: 74 3b je 0x44
9: 48 89 c5 mov %rax,%rbp
c: e8 d0 a0 ff ff callq 0xffffffffffffa0e1
11: 48 85 c0 test %rax,%rax
14: 48 89 45 40 mov %rax,0x40(%rbp)
18: 75 11 jne 0x2b
1a: 48 8b 3d e1 22 3e 00 mov 0x3e22e1(%rip),%rdi # 0x3e2302
21: 48 89 ee mov %rbp,%rsi
24: 31 ed xor %ebp,%ebp
26: e8 fe 10 05 00 callq 0x51129

/tmp/tmp.CcCjFxHOMN.o: file format elf64-x86-64

Disassembly of section .text:

0000000000000000 <.text>:
0: 48 8b 7d 40 mov 0x40(%rbp),%rdi
4: 31 f6 xor %esi,%esi
6: ba 80 00 00 00 mov $0x80,%edx
b: 48 83 c7 18 add $0x18,%rdi
f: e8 6b ae 0d 00 callq 0xdae7f
14: 48 rex.W


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