Re: Next May 11 : BUG during scsi initialization

From: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: Next May 11 : BUG during scsi initialization
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 17:34:07 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A081437.7000409@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090511115233.GB8112@parisc-linux.org>

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:16:10PM +0530, Sachin Sant wrote:
>   
>> Today's Next tree failed to boot on a Power6 box with following BUG :
>>     
>
> This doesn't actually appear to be a SCSI bug ... it looks like SCSI tried
> to allocate memory and things went wrong in the memory allocator:
>
> [c0000000c7d038b0] [c0000000005d67d8] ._spin_lock+0x10/0x24
> [c0000000c7d03920] [c00000000013fbdc] .__slab_alloc_page+0x344/0x3cc
> [c0000000c7d039e0] [c000000000141168] .kmem_cache_alloc+0x13c/0x21c
> [c0000000c7d03aa0] [c000000000141b04] .kmem_cache_create+0x294/0x2a8
> [c0000000c7d03b90] [d000000000ea14cc] .scsi_init_queue+0x38/0x170 [scsi_mod]
>
> Which memory allocator did you have selected (SLAB, SLUB, SLOB, SLQB)?
>   
Default one. SLQB

CONFIG_SLQB_ALLOCATOR=y
CONFIG_SLQB=y

Page size is 64K with Config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC set.

CONFIG_PPC_HAS_HASH_64K=y
CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y

Thanks
-Sachin

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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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