On Saturday 09 Jul 2005 17:04, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Saturday 09 Jul 2005 16:57, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Alistair John Strachan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Okay, I'll send you the vmlinux from -18 with a new digital photo, and
> > > config, with CONFIG_4KSTACKS enabled.
> >
> > this crash too seems to indicate trigger_softirqs()/wakeup_softirqd().
> > Somewhere we somehow corrupt the stack and e.g. in oops7.jpg we return
> > to 00c011ed. Note that it's a right-shifted address that could be one of
> > these:
> >
> > c011ed50 t wakeup_softirqd
> > c011ed80 t trigger_softirqs
> >
> > but it looks pretty weird. DEBUG_STACK_POISON (and the full-debug
> > .config i sent) could perhaps uncover other types of stack corruptions.
>
> You weren't kidding about the overhead from DEBUG_STACK_POISON.
> Unfortunately that config causes a triple fault randomly after boot. The
> machine doesn't crash, or oops, it just resets.
>
> This problem has gone from bad to worse :-)
Okay, maybe not. Some combination of the debug options you enabled causes this
problem, but DEBUG_STACK_POISON itself is not the cause. Today I compiled Yet
Another (tm) CONFIG_4KSTACKS kernel with DEBUG_STACK_POISON,
CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW and CONFIG_LATENCY_TRACE, which worked fine (from
a random reboot perspective).
I've also upgraded GCC to 4.0.1 as Jakub highlighted elsewhere in this thread
that it had been released.
Here's a screenshot of the oops. Notice that "stack left" is now -52. We've
confirmed this is a stack overflow!
http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/oops8.jpeg
I'm going to try the 8K stack kernel with the same stuff and see if I can get
a stack trace. I hope this is the beginning of the end for this problem.
--
Cheers,
Alistair.
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Edinburgh. EH8 9PP.
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