* Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote:
> But I think the rest of your changes are simply bad.
>
> The fix to block/ll_rw_block.c should likely be something like the
> appended instead:
>
> - remove the "memset()" you had added earlier. It's bogus. It cannot be
> the right thing. If the sg list wasn't initialized correctly much
> earlier, trying to initialize it late is pointless - it contains crap.
>
> - the old code was fine, but let's initialize "sg" to NULL to make it
> clear that the initial value of sg is pointless, and only "next_sg"
> matters (since sg had better be assigned from that).
>
> Hmm?
built and booted your patch (removed Jens's) but it still crashes in
blk_rq_map_sg() - see below. Should i have left something from Jens's
patch?
Ingo
------------------->
[ 34.698199] VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
[ 34.703917] Freeing unused kernel memory: 372k freed
[ 34.746609] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6e616872
[ 34.754106] printing eip: 7840503b *pde = 00000000
[ 34.758960] Oops: 0000 [#1] DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[ 34.763120]
[ 34.764594] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.23 #7)
[ 34.769965] EIP: 0060:[<7840503b>] EFLAGS: 00010006 CPU: 0
[ 34.775429] EIP is at blk_rq_map_sg+0xbb/0x170
[ 34.779845] EAX: 3ffcd000 EBX: 7c88a68c ECX: 3ffce000 EDX: 007ff9a0
[ 34.786085] ESI: 6e616862 EDI: 798ea9a0 EBP: 00001000 ESP: 7b421bf4
[ 34.792324] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
[ 34.797697] Process swapper (pid: 1, ti=7b420000 task=7b416000 task.ti=7b420000)
[ 34.804890] Stack: 00000046 7b520000 00002000 3ffcf000 7c88ac80 00000001 00000001 00000001
[ 34.813209] 7c88a600 01000000 7c88ab00 7b521d1c 7c88a708 7b520000 784c7ac5 7b520000
[ 34.821529] 784c75ca 7c88a708 7b524ce4 7b521d1c 7c88a708 784e4570 7b416000 7813661b
[ 34.829847] Call Trace:
[ 34.832448] [<784c7ac5>] scsi_init_io+0x55/0xe0
[ 34.837042] [<784c75ca>] scsi_get_cmd_from_req+0x2a/0x40
[ 34.842414] [<784e4570>] sd_prep_fn+0x80/0x940
[ 34.846920] [<7813661b>] __lock_acquire+0x4ab/0xe20
[ 34.851860] [<781450a6>] add_to_page_cache+0x66/0xb0
[ 34.856887] [<78404633>] elv_dispatch_sort+0x23/0xe0
[ 34.861912] [<784041a0>] elv_next_request+0xa0/0x130
[ 34.866938] [<784c8c04>] scsi_request_fn+0x1e4/0x370
[ 34.871965] [<78120f02>] del_timer+0x62/0x70
[ 34.876298] [<78407445>] __generic_unplug_device+0x25/0x30
[ 34.881844] [<78407715>] generic_unplug_device+0x15/0x30
[ 34.887217] [<78404e00>] blk_backing_dev_unplug+0x0/0x10
[ 34.892590] [<78404e0c>] blk_backing_dev_unplug+0xc/0x10
[ 34.897963] [<78180a9d>] block_sync_page+0x2d/0x40
[ 34.902817] [<78144dc9>] sync_page+0x29/0x40
[ 34.907150] [<7876f5bc>] __wait_on_bit_lock+0x3c/0x70
[ 34.912263] [<78144da0>] sync_page+0x0/0x40
[ 34.916509] [<78144d82>] __lock_page+0x52/0x60
[ 34.921016] [<7812adb0>] wake_bit_function+0x0/0x60
[ 34.925955] [<7814554c>] do_generic_mapping_read+0x21c/0x450
[ 34.931675] [<78144b10>] file_read_actor+0x0/0x130
[ 34.936528] [<78147107>] generic_file_aio_read+0x137/0x180
[ 34.942074] [<78144b10>] file_read_actor+0x0/0x130
[ 34.946927] [<78161245>] do_sync_read+0xd5/0x120
[ 34.951607] [<78135646>] mark_lock+0x76/0x550
[ 34.956027] [<7812ad70>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
[ 34.961573] [<78155026>] __vma_link+0x36/0x70
[ 34.965993] [<78161170>] do_sync_read+0x0/0x120
[ 34.970586] [<78161ae3>] vfs_read+0xb3/0x110
[ 34.974919] [<781652cd>] kernel_read+0x3d/0x60
[ 34.979425] [<7816539f>] prepare_binprm+0xaf/0xe0
[ 34.984192] [<78166973>] do_execve+0x123/0x1c0
[ 34.988698] [<78100f1f>] sys_execve+0x2f/0x90
[ 34.993118] [<781028a2>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
[ 34.997538] [<78106f1c>] kernel_execve+0x1c/0x30
[ 35.002217] [<7810016e>] init_post+0x9e/0xe0
[ 35.006550] [<78a147b3>] kernel_init+0x163/0x280
[ 35.011230] [<78a14650>] kernel_init+0x0/0x280
[ 35.015736] [<78103a97>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
[ 35.020936] =======================
[ 35.024489] Code: 29 c1 c1 f9 05 c1 e1 0c 03 4a 08 8b 52 04 01 ca 89 54 24 0c 8b 3b 89 fa 29 c2 89 d0 c1 f8 05 c1 e0 0c 03 43 08 39 44 24 0c 74 7e <8b> 46 10 8d 56 10 a8 01 75 4c 89 3e 89 6e 0c 8b 43 08 89 46 04
[ 35.043294] EIP: [<7840503b>] blk_rq_map_sg+0xbb/0x170 SS:ESP 0068:7b421bf4
[ 35.050228] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
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