On 2015/10/15 22:39, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2015, Gonglei (Arei) wrote:
>
>> [ 0.016000] Call Trace:
>> [ 0.016000] [<ffffffff810061dc>] dump_trace+0x6c/0x2d0
>> [ 0.016000] [<ffffffff81394288>] dump_stack+0x69/0x71
>> [ 0.016000] [<ffffffff81394308>] panic+0x78/0x199
>> [ 0.016000] [<ffffffff81050fff>] do_exit+0x26f/0x360
>> [ 0.016000] [<ffffffff813980a1>] oops_end+0xe1/0xf0
>> [ 0.016000] [<ffffffff8102d955>] __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x155/0x230
>> [ 0.016000] [<ffffffff813972ef>] page_fault+0x1f/0x30
>> [ 0.016000] [<ffffffff810ed93f>] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0xbf/0x140
>> [ 0.016000] [<ffffffff811dc176>] alloc_cpumask_var_node+0x16/0x70
>> [ 0.016000] [<ffffffff81019888>] native_send_call_func_ipi+0x18/0xf0
>> [ 0.016000] [<ffffffff810783ee>] smp_call_function_many+0x1ae/0x250
>> [ 0.016000] [<ffffffff810784b0>] smp_call_function+0x20/0x30
>> [ 0.016000] [<ffffffff8101580a>] set_mtrr+0x5a/0x140
>> [ 0.016000] [<ffffffff8138ef17>] smp_callin+0xf0/0x1b4
>> [ 0.016000] [<ffffffff8138efe9>] start_secondary+0xe/0xb5
>
> This happened during IPI processing?
>
>> crash> p cache_cache
>
> Arg. This is the SLAB allocator. You cannot enable debugging without
> rebuilding the kernel with CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG.
>
>> smp_processor_id() return 14, the CPU14, but the CPU14 is *stuck*, so cache=
>> p->array[14] is NULL,
>> why did this situation happen? And cause NULL pointer accessing? Is this a =
>> kernel bug?
>
> Its likely a bug in some obscure code in a driver that corrupted memory or
> messed up the way memory was handled. set_mtrr()? What was going on at the
> time? A special graphics driver being loaded? That could cause issues.
>
It seems that the problem was fixed by Igor, right?
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/6/257
Cced Igor Mammedov.
Regards,
-Gonglei
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