Re: Panic in reserve_memtype()

[Jack Steiner]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 01:09:24PM -0800, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 12:22 -0800, Jack Steiner wrote:
> > We see an X86_64 regression that started a few days ago. The kernel is booted
> > via EFI & panics in the pat.c code trying to deref a NULL pointer.
> > 
> > I didn't debug the problem but am suspicious of
> > 	x86, pat: Migrate to rbtree only backend for pat memtype management  x86/pat
> > 		author	Pallipadi, Venkatesh <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx>	
> > 		Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:26:07 +0000 (15:26 -0800)
> > 	committer	H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>	
> > 		Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:41:36 +0000 (15:41 -0800)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Has anyone seen this? If not, I can debug further....
> > 
> 
> 
> Haven't seen this on my test systems here, but I haven't tested with EFI
> boot either.
> 
> I assume this is repeatable, and you always see this panic. I am looking
> at the code right now. Can you rollback this particular patch and see
> whether it goes away?

The problem is very repeatible.

FWIW, we have a nightly regression test that builds/tests the x86 tree
everynight at 1 AM. The failure started on the morning of Feb 22.

The build on Feb 21 (& all of Feb before then) passed w/o errors.
I can't rule out other errors but I don't see anything else that changed.

The linux-next tree appears to have the same problem.



--- jack
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