Re: Kernel 2.6.19.2 New RAID 5 Bug (oops when writing Samba -> RAID5)

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:37:15 -0500 (EST)
Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com> wrote:

> > Without digging too deeply, I'd say you've hit the same bug Sami Farin and
> > others
> > have reported starting with 2.6.19: pages mapped with kmap_atomic() become
> > unmapped
> > during memcpy() or similar operations.  Try disabling preempt -- that seems to
> > be the
> > common factor.
> > 
> > 
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> 
> After I run some other tests, I am going to re-run this test and see if it 
> OOPSes again with PREEMPT off.

Strange.  The below debug patch might catch it - please run with this
applied.  


--- a/arch/i386/mm/highmem.c~kmap_atomic-debugging
+++ a/arch/i386/mm/highmem.c
@@ -30,7 +30,43 @@ void *kmap_atomic(struct page *page, enu
 {
 	enum fixed_addresses idx;
 	unsigned long vaddr;
+	static unsigned warn_count = 10;
 
+	if (unlikely(warn_count == 0))
+		goto skip;
+
+	if (unlikely(in_interrupt())) {
+		if (in_irq()) {
+			if (type != KM_IRQ0 && type != KM_IRQ1 &&
+			    type != KM_BIO_SRC_IRQ && type != KM_BIO_DST_IRQ &&
+			    type != KM_BOUNCE_READ) {
+				WARN_ON(1);
+				warn_count--;
+			}
+		} else if (!irqs_disabled()) {	/* softirq */
+			if (type != KM_IRQ0 && type != KM_IRQ1 &&
+			    type != KM_SOFTIRQ0 && type != KM_SOFTIRQ1 &&
+			    type != KM_SKB_SUNRPC_DATA &&
+			    type != KM_SKB_DATA_SOFTIRQ &&
+			    type != KM_BOUNCE_READ) {
+				WARN_ON(1);
+				warn_count--;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (type == KM_IRQ0 || type == KM_IRQ1 || type == KM_BOUNCE_READ) {
+		if (!irqs_disabled()) {
+			WARN_ON(1);
+			warn_count--;
+		}
+	} else if (type == KM_SOFTIRQ0 || type == KM_SOFTIRQ1) {
+		if (irq_count() == 0 && !irqs_disabled()) {
+			WARN_ON(1);
+			warn_count--;
+		}
+	}
+skip:
 	/* even !CONFIG_PREEMPT needs this, for in_atomic in do_page_fault */
 	pagefault_disable();
 	if (!PageHighMem(page))
_

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