Re: 2.6.14-rc1-git-now still dying in mm/slab - this time line 1849

[Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>]

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Petr Vandrovec wrote:

> Simple... I just boot any kernel after 2.6.13, and it dies in front of me.
> Currently I'm using config below, which I boot with 'rootdelay=60' so panic
> in keventd happens before panic due to no root filesystem.  No ACPI.
> Nothing.  100% reproducible.  Maybe I should enable embedded options and
> remove all other device drivers still present in the kernel.
> 
> Below config is dmesg from 2.6.13, which has no problems with comming up.
> Maybe
> you'll find some clue there, but I see none.  Node #0 has 1GB of memory, so
> it should have no need to borrow blocks from node #1 when this kernel is able
> to boot in 16MB of memory...

Hmm. This likely has something to do with debugging code. I was unable to 
reproduce this on amd64 with your config. I get another failure with 
2.6.14-rc2 on ia64 if I enable all the debugging features that you have. 
The system works fine if no debugging is configured:

kernel BUG at kernel/workqueue.c:541!
swapper[1]: bugcheck! 0 [1]
Modules linked in:

Pid: 1, CPU 0, comm:              swapper
psr : 00001010085a6010 ifs : 8000000000000105 ip  : [<a0000001000e5b10>]    
Not tainted
ip is at init_workqueues+0x90/0xa0
unat: 0000000000000000 pfs : 0000000000000105 rsc : 0000000000000003
rnat: 0000000000000000 bsps: 000000000001003e pr  : 000000000000a541
ldrs: 0000000000000000 ccv : 0000000000000000 fpsr: 0009804c8a70433f
csd : 0000000000000000 ssd : 0000000000000000
b0  : a0000001000e5b10 b6  : e000003002385ad0 b7  : e000000001fffc00
f6  : 1003e000000003f34da65 f7  : 1003e20c49ba5e353f7cf
f8  : 1003e00000000000000c8 f9  : 10006c7fffffffd73ea5c
f10 : 0fffdfffffffffaf00000 f11 : 1003e0000000000000000
r1  : a000000100cd7670 r2  : 0000000000000001 r3  : e00000b0057c0e00
r8  : 0000000000000029 r9  : 0000000000004000 r10 : 0000000000000001
r11 : 0000000000000002 r12 : e00000b0057c7de0 r13 : e00000b0057c0000
r14 : a0000001009690b0 r15 : e00000b0057c0df4 r16 : e00000b0057c0e00
r17 : 0000000000000001 r18 : 0000000000000002 r19 : a0000001009690b0
r20 : a000000100ad78f8 r21 : ffffffffffffffff r22 : e000000001fffc00
r23 : a000000100b11748 r24 : 0000000000000000 r25 : 0000000000000004
r26 : e00000b0057c0df0 r27 : e00000b0057c7cc8 r28 : e00000b0057c7cd0
r29 : 0000000000000c46 r30 : 0000000000000c46 r31 : 0000000000000308

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