Hi Olaf,

[Adding Christoph as cc.]

On Jan 15, 2008 5:09 PM, Olaf Hering [off-list ref] wrote:

Current linus tree crashes in kmem_cache_init, as shown below. The
system is a 8cpu 2.2GHz POWER5 system, model 9117-570, with 4GB ram.
Firmware is 240_332, 2.6.23 boots ok with the same config.

There is a series of mm related patches in 2.6.24-rc1:
commit 04231b3002ac53f8a64a7bd142fde3fa4b6808c6 seems to break it,

So that's the "Memoryless nodes: Slab support" patch that I think
cause a similar oops while ago.

Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000040
Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000437470
cpu 0x0: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000000075b830]
    pc: c000000000437470: ._spin_lock+0x20/0x88
    lr: c0000000000f78a8: .cache_grow+0x7c/0x338
    sp: c00000000075bab0
   msr: 8000000000009032
   dar: 40
 dsisr: 40000000
  current = 0xc000000000665a50
  paca    = 0xc000000000666380
    pid   = 0, comm = swapper
enter ? for help
[c00000000075bb30] c0000000000f78a8 .cache_grow+0x7c/0x338
[c00000000075bbf0] c0000000000f7d04 .fallback_alloc+0x1a0/0x1f4
[c00000000075bca0] c0000000000f8544 .kmem_cache_alloc+0xec/0x150
[c00000000075bd40] c0000000000fb1c0 .kmem_cache_create+0x208/0x478
[c00000000075be20] c0000000005e670c .kmem_cache_init+0x218/0x4f4
[c00000000075bee0] c0000000005bf8ec .start_kernel+0x2f8/0x3fc
[c00000000075bf90] c000000000008590 .start_here_common+0x60/0xd0

Looks similar to the one discussed on linux-mm ("[BUG] at
mm/slab.c:3320" thread). Christoph?