On Wednesday November 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc6/2.6.19-rc6-mm2/ > > md-change-lifetime-rules-for-md-devices.patch gives me the following early > during boot (first WARNING() inside __mutex_lock_slowpath(), then BUG at > __mutex_lock_slowpath(), just after that slab corruption). > > When I revert md-change-lifetime-rules-for-md-devices.patch, everything > seems to go fine (this machine does use neither LVM nor RAID, but the > kernel has DM compiled in). > > Config is at http://www.jikos.cz/jikos/junk/.config_md > > WARNING at kernel/mutex.c:132 __mutex_lock_common() > [<c0103d70>] dump_trace+0x68/0x1b5 > [<c0103ed5>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x18/0x2c > [<c010445b>] show_trace+0xf/0x11 > [<c01044cd>] dump_stack+0x12/0x14 > [<c036e6ba>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xa1/0x213 > [<c0197c7d>] create_dir+0x24/0x1ba > [<c0198317>] sysfs_create_dir+0x45/0x5f > [<c01ed1fb>] kobject_add+0xce/0x185 > [<c01ed3c3>] kobject_register+0x19/0x30 > [<c02e10c6>] md_probe+0x11a/0x124
Very odd. md_probe is registering a kobject presenting md specific stuff and that creates a directory called 'md' inside the block device. e.g. /sys/block/md0/md The inode for /sys/block/md0 appear to be non-existent at this point, which as you are seeing poisoned memory where the inode should be. This shouldn't happen and I cannot reproduce it. I notice it says: | v > 090: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b > Single bit error detected. Probably bad RAM. > Run memtest86+ or a similar memory test tool. Have you tried running memtest86 ?? NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/