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

* 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
...

Ingo


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