Re: 3.14.0-rc2: WARNING: at mm/slub.c:1007

From: Christian Kujau
Date: Thu Feb 13 2014 - 15:02:11 EST


On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 at 11:53, Christian Kujau wrote:
> after upgrading from 3.13-rc8 to 3.14.0-rc2 on this PowerPC G4 machine,
> the WARNING below was printed.
>
> Shortly after, a lockdep warning appeared (possibly related to my
> post to the XFS list yesterday[0]).

Sigh, only _after_ sending the email, I came across an earlier posting on
lkml: http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=139145788623391

Sorry for the noise. These out-of-memory messages below appeared without
the WARNING though and started somewhere in 3.13, but are impossible to
bisect, as they're happening only every few days / weeks.

Christian.

> Even later in the log an out-of-memory error appeared, that may or may not
> be relatd to that WARNING at all but which I'm trying to chase down ever
> since 3.13, but which tends to appear more often lately.
>
> Can anyone take a look if this is something to worry about?
>
> Full dmesg & .config: http://nerdbynature.de/bits/3.14-rc2/mm/
>
> Thanks,
> Christian.
>
> [0] http://oss.sgi.com/pipermail/xfs/2014-February/034054.html
>
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: at /usr/local/src/linux-git/mm/slub.c:1007
> Modules linked in: md5 ecb nfs i2c_powermac therm_adt746x ecryptfs arc4
> firewire_sbp2 b43 usb_storage mac80211 cfg80211
> CPU: 0 PID: 9025 Comm: nfsd Not tainted 3.14.0-rc2 #1
> task: efbf8000 ti: ed2a0000 task.ti: ed2a0000
> NIP: c00ccc28 LR: c00ccc20 CTR: 00000000
> REGS: ed2a1980 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (3.14.0-rc2)
> MSR: 00021032 <ME,IR,DR,RI> CR: 22f82b82 XER: 20000000
>
> GPR00: c00ccc20 ed2a1a30 efbf8000 00000000 ef96e550 00000000 00000000
> 00002ce0
> GPR08: 00000000 00000001 efbf86f8 000005e7 82fc2b88 00000000 00000001
> 00080011
> GPR16: 00000000 00000000 c0760000 00000000 ef96e564 00100100 00200200
> c1203914
> GPR24: 00000000 ef96e540 00000002 ef96fa80 00000000 00000000 ed2a0000
> c1203900
> NIP [c00ccc28] deactivate_slab+0x4c0/0x538
> LR [c00ccc20] deactivate_slab+0x4b8/0x538
> Call Trace:
> [ed2a1a30] [c00ccc20] deactivate_slab+0x4b8/0x538 (unreliable)
> [ed2a1ae0] [c055d5f0] __slab_alloc.constprop.77+0x260/0x38c
> [ed2a1b50] [c00cd524] kmem_cache_alloc+0x118/0x140
> [ed2a1b70] [c01de4bc] kmem_zone_alloc+0x94/0x108
> [ed2a1ba0] [c01cccd4] xfs_inode_alloc+0x2c/0xd4
> [ed2a1bc0] [c01cd7a4] xfs_iget+0x2e4/0x584
> [ed2a1c30] [c020e664] xfs_lookup+0xc8/0xe4
> [ed2a1c70] [c01d3c28] xfs_vn_lookup+0x64/0xbc
> [ed2a1c90] [c00db3ac] lookup_real+0x30/0x70
> [ed2a1ca0] [c00dc384] __lookup_hash+0x3c/0x58
> [ed2a1cc0] [c00e1438] lookup_one_len+0x10c/0x15c
> [ed2a1ce0] [c01a170c] nfsd4_encode_dirent+0xb4/0x328
> [ed2a1d10] [c018f580] nfsd_readdir+0x1d4/0x288
> [ed2a1d90] [c019d648] nfsd4_encode_readdir+0x138/0x1f4
> [ed2a1dd0] [c01a1b18] nfsd4_encode_operation+0x8c/0xf0
> [ed2a1df0] [c019aa4c] nfsd4_proc_compound+0x1b8/0x4f8
> [ed2a1e30] [c0189d20] nfsd_dispatch+0x90/0x1a0
> [ed2a1e50] [c0536b04] svc_process+0x3d0/0x698
> [ed2a1e90] [c01895bc] nfsd+0xc0/0x120
> [ed2a1eb0] [c004f8fc] kthread+0xbc/0xd0
> [ed2a1f40] [c0010ae4] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
> Instruction dump:
> 7fe4fb78 800100b4 b9c10068 7d810120 7d808120 7c0803a6 382100b0 4bfffb00
> 80610048 4bf95dc5 2f830000 40beff4c <0fe00000> 4bffff44 815e000c 394a0001
> ---[ end trace 1f5ed3ea8b3e4403 ]---
>
>
> --
> BOFH excuse #65:
>
> system needs to be rebooted
>
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BOFH excuse #65:

system needs to be rebooted
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