From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc5-mm1: 3 WARN_ON dumps during boot (acpi + vmap_pte_range)
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 17:55:23 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809091755.23379.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080909070501.244d06ab.krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 15:05, Krzysztof Helt wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 13:04:47 +1000
>
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 September 2008 03:52, Krzysztof Helt wrote:
> > > alloc_vmap_area within(e07f0000-fffb7000) size=801000
> > > returns=(e0880000-e1081000)
> > > alloc_vmap_area within(e07f0000-fffb7000) size=2000
> > > returns=(e07f0000-e07f2000)
> > > alloc_vmap_area within(e07f0000-fffb7000) size=2000
> > > returns=(e0822000-e0824000)
> > > vunmap_page_range (e07f0000-e07f2000 size=2000)
> > > free_vmap_area (e07f0000-e07f2000 size=2000)
> > >
> > > alloc_vmap_area within(e07f0000-fffb7000) size=5000
> > > returns=(e07f0000-e07f5000)
> > > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > > WARNING: at mm/vmalloc.c:40 check_pte_range+0x83/0x90()
> >
> > Thanks for that, it clearly shows the virtual address allocator
> > is allowing an overlapping allocation after a vm_unmap_aliases()
> > call. Unfortunately, my "random" test case happened not to
> > trigger that... I should have paid more attention to edge cases
> > rather than just random testing.
> >
> > Anyway, I hope this fix should solve the problem for you? (it
> > fixes it here)
>
> Your patch fixes two WARN_ON dumps from my original dmesg (agp
> related and module loading related).
> The remaining one is the acpi kobject duplication.
>
> Tested-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
>
> Thanks a lot Nick,
> Krzysztof
Great, thanks very much for reporting and testing.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-09 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-06 6:45 2.6.27-rc5-mm1: 3 WARN_ON dumps during boot (acpi + vmap_pte_range) Krzysztof Helt
2008-09-06 6:50 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-06 10:18 ` Krzysztof Helt
2008-09-08 9:05 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-08 9:37 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-08 17:52 ` Krzysztof Helt
2008-09-09 3:04 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-09 5:05 ` Krzysztof Helt
2008-09-09 7:55 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
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