On Wed, Mar 21, Andrew Morton wrote: > Why does the kernel oops?
Attached is a .config and helper scripts for a minimal pseries netboot zImage. Crashes in the second iteration. Does it work on other archs? init.sh referenced in initramfs.txt below #!/bin/bash mount -nv -t proc proc /proc numcpus=`grep -Ec '^cpu[0-9]' /proc/stat || echo 1` while true do forked= john= for i in `seq 1 $numcpus` do echo $i bash -c 'declare -i x=1 ; while test $x != 0 ; do : $(( x++ )) ; done' & forked="$forked $!" done echo "forked $forked" nice -n -19 bash -c 'declare -i x=1 ; while test $x != 0 ; do : $(( x++ )) ; done' & john=$! sleep 3 ls -A /proc/*/task | grep -v ^/ | xargs echo | xargs -n1 taskset -pc 2-$numcpus taskset -pc 1 $$ taskset -pc 0 $john sleep 2 kill $forked $john ls -A /proc/*/task | grep -v ^/ | xargs echo | xargs -n1 taskset -pc 0-$numcpus done initramfs.txt referenced in .config below # A simple initramfs dir /dev 0755 0 0 nod /dev/console 0600 0 0 c 5 1 nod /dev/kmsg 0600 0 0 c 1 11 nod /dev/null 0600 0 0 c 1 3 dir /proc 0755 0 0 dir /bin 0755 0 0 dir /lib 0755 0 0 dir /lib64 0755 0 0 file /init /somewhere/init.sh 0755 0 0 #optional: file /bin/bash /bin/bash 0755 0 0 file /bin/echo /bin/echo 0755 0 0 file /bin/taskset /usr/bin/taskset 0755 0 0 file /bin/grep /bin/grep 0755 0 0 file /bin/mount /bin/mount 0755 0 0 file /bin/seq /usr/bin/seq 0755 0 0 file /bin/nice /usr/bin/nice 0755 0 0 file /bin/ls /bin/ls 0755 0 0 file /bin/xargs /usr/bin/xargs 0755 0 0 file /bin/sleep /bin/sleep 0755 0 0 file /bin/kill /bin/kill 0755 0 0 file /bin/ln /bin/ln 0755 0 0 file /lib/ld.so.1 /lib/ld.so.1 0755 0 0 file /lib/libacl.so.1 /lib/libacl.so.1 0755 0 0 file /lib/libattr.so.1 /lib/libattr.so.1 0755 0 0 file /lib/libc.so.6 /lib/libc.so.6 0755 0 0 file /lib/libm.so.6 /lib/libm.so.6 0755 0 0 file /lib/libpthread.so.0 /lib/libpthread.so.0 0755 0 0 file /lib/librt.so.1 /lib/librt.so.1 0755 0 0 file /lib64/ld64.so.1 /lib64/ld64.so.1 0755 0 0 file /lib64/libc.so.6 /lib64/libc.so.6 0755 0 0 file /lib64/libdl.so.2 /lib64/libdl.so.2 0755 0 0 file /lib64/libhistory.so.5 /lib64/libhistory.so.5 0755 0 0 file /lib64/libncurses.so.5 /lib64/libncurses.so.5 0755 0 0 file /lib64/libreadline.so.5 /lib64/libreadline.so.5 0755 0 0 # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.21-rc4-git5 # Thu Mar 22 23:48:43 2007 # CONFIG_PPC64=y CONFIG_64BIT=y CONFIG_PPC_MERGE=y CONFIG_MMU=y CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS=y CONFIG_IRQ_PER_CPU=y CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_ILOG2_U32=y CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_ILOG2_U64=y CONFIG_GENERIC_HWEIGHT=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY=y CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT=y CONFIG_PPC=y CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y CONFIG_COMPAT=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC_COMPAT=y CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER=y CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC=y CONFIG_PPC_OF=y CONFIG_PPC_UDBG_16550=y # CONFIG_GENERIC_TBSYNC is not set CONFIG_AUDIT_ARCH=y CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG=y # CONFIG_DEFAULT_UIMAGE is not set # # Processor support # CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY=y CONFIG_POWER4=y CONFIG_PPC_FPU=y # CONFIG_PPC_DCR_NATIVE is not set # CONFIG_PPC_DCR_MMIO is not set # CONFIG_PPC_OF_PLATFORM_PCI is not set # CONFIG_ALTIVEC is not set CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU=y # CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is not set CONFIG_SMP=y CONFIG_NR_CPUS=128 CONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST="/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" # # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_LOCK_KERNEL=y CONFIG_INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT=32 # # General setup # CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-ppc64-taskset" CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y # CONFIG_IPC_NS is not set CONFIG_SYSVIPC_SYSCTL=y # CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT is not set # CONFIG_UTS_NS is not set # CONFIG_IKCONFIG is not set # CONFIG_CPUSETS is not set # CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set # CONFIG_RELAY is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="/somewhere/initramfs.txt" CONFIG_INITRAMFS_ROOT_UID=0 CONFIG_INITRAMFS_ROOT_GID=0 CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y # CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is not set CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y CONFIG_PRINTK=y CONFIG_BUG=y CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y CONFIG_FUTEX=y CONFIG_EPOLL=y CONFIG_SHMEM=y CONFIG_SLAB=y CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS=y CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES=y # CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0 # CONFIG_SLOB is not set # # Loadable module support # # CONFIG_MODULES is not set # # Block layer # # CONFIG_BLOCK is not set # # Platform support # CONFIG_PPC_MULTIPLATFORM=y # CONFIG_EMBEDDED6xx is not set # CONFIG_APUS is not set CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES=y # CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES is not set # CONFIG_PPC_MPC52xx is not set # CONFIG_PPC_MPC5200 is not set # CONFIG_PPC_PMAC is not set # CONFIG_PPC_MAPLE is not set # CONFIG_PPC_PASEMI is not set # CONFIG_PPC_CELL is not set # CONFIG_PPC_CELL_NATIVE is not set # CONFIG_PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE is not set # CONFIG_PPC_PS3 is not set # CONFIG_PPC_CELLEB is not set CONFIG_PPC_NATIVE=y # CONFIG_UDBG_RTAS_CONSOLE is not set CONFIG_XICS=y # CONFIG_U3_DART is not set CONFIG_PPC_RTAS=y CONFIG_RTAS_ERROR_LOGGING=y # CONFIG_RTAS_PROC is not set # CONFIG_MMIO_NVRAM is not set CONFIG_IBMVIO=y # CONFIG_IBMEBUS is not set # CONFIG_PPC_MPC106 is not set # CONFIG_PPC_970_NAP is not set # CONFIG_PPC_INDIRECT_IO is not set # CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP is not set # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ is not set # CONFIG_WANT_EARLY_SERIAL is not set CONFIG_MPIC=y # # Kernel options # CONFIG_HZ_100=y # CONFIG_HZ_250 is not set # CONFIG_HZ_300 is not set # CONFIG_HZ_1000 is not set CONFIG_HZ=100 CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y # CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set # CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set # CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL is not set CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y # CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC is not set CONFIG_FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER=13 CONFIG_IOMMU_VMERGE=y # CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is not set CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y # CONFIG_KEXEC is not set # CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is not set CONFIG_IRQ_ALL_CPUS=y CONFIG_PPC_SPLPAR=y # CONFIG_EEH is not set # CONFIG_LPARCFG is not set # CONFIG_NUMA is not set CONFIG_ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y CONFIG_ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE=y CONFIG_ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE=y CONFIG_ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT=y CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP=y CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y # CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL is not set # CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL is not set CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_MANUAL=y CONFIG_SPARSEMEM=y CONFIG_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT=y # CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_STATIC is not set CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y # CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG is not set CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS=4 CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT=y CONFIG_ZONE_DMA_FLAG=1 # CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES is not set CONFIG_SCHED_SMT=y CONFIG_PROC_DEVICETREE=y CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL=y CONFIG_CMDLINE="quiet panic=2" # CONFIG_PM is not set # CONFIG_SECCOMP is not set CONFIG_ISA_DMA_API=y # # Bus options # CONFIG_ZONE_DMA=y CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y # CONFIG_MPIC_WEIRD is not set CONFIG_PPC_I8259=y # CONFIG_PPC_INDIRECT_PCI is not set CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_PCI_DOMAINS=y # CONFIG_PCIEPORTBUS is not set # CONFIG_PCI_DEBUG is not set # # PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus) support # # CONFIG_PCCARD is not set # # PCI Hotplug Support # # CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI is not set CONFIG_KERNEL_START=0xc000000000000000 # # Networking # # CONFIG_NET is not set # # Device Drivers # # # Generic Driver Options # CONFIG_STANDALONE=y CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y # CONFIG_FW_LOADER is not set # CONFIG_DEBUG_DRIVER is not set # CONFIG_DEBUG_DEVRES is not set # CONFIG_SYS_HYPERVISOR is not set # # Connector - unified userspace <-> kernelspace linker # # # Memory Technology Devices (MTD) # # CONFIG_MTD is not set # # Parallel port support # # CONFIG_PARPORT is not set # # Plug and Play support # # CONFIG_PNPACPI is not set # # Misc devices # # CONFIG_SGI_IOC4 is not set # CONFIG_TIFM_CORE is not set # # SCSI device support # # CONFIG_SCSI_NETLINK is not set # # Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers # # # Fusion MPT device support # # CONFIG_FUSION is not set # # IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support # # CONFIG_IEEE1394 is not set # # I2O device support # # CONFIG_I2O is not set # # Macintosh device drivers # # CONFIG_MAC_EMUMOUSEBTN is not set # CONFIG_WINDFARM is not set # # ISDN subsystem # # # Telephony Support # # CONFIG_PHONE is not set # # Input device support # CONFIG_INPUT=y # CONFIG_INPUT_FF_MEMLESS is not set # # Userland interfaces # # CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV is not set # CONFIG_INPUT_JOYDEV is not set # CONFIG_INPUT_TSDEV is not set # CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV is not set # CONFIG_INPUT_EVBUG is not set # # Input Device Drivers # # CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD is not set # CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE is not set # CONFIG_INPUT_JOYSTICK is not set # CONFIG_INPUT_TOUCHSCREEN is not set # CONFIG_INPUT_MISC is not set # # Hardware I/O ports # # CONFIG_SERIO is not set # CONFIG_GAMEPORT is not set # # Character devices # CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING is not set # CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD is not set # # Serial drivers # # CONFIG_SERIAL_8250 is not set # # Non-8250 serial port support # # CONFIG_SERIAL_ICOM is not set # CONFIG_SERIAL_JSM is not set CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y # CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set CONFIG_HVC_DRIVER=y CONFIG_HVC_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_HVC_RTAS is not set # CONFIG_HVCS is not set # # IPMI # # CONFIG_IPMI_HANDLER is not set # # Watchdog Cards # # CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFIG_HW_RANDOM is not set # CONFIG_GEN_RTC is not set # CONFIG_DTLK is not set # CONFIG_R3964 is not set # CONFIG_APPLICOM is not set # CONFIG_AGP is not set # CONFIG_DRM is not set # CONFIG_HANGCHECK_TIMER is not set # # TPM devices # # CONFIG_TCG_TPM is not set # # I2C support # # CONFIG_I2C is not set # # SPI support # # CONFIG_SPI is not set # CONFIG_SPI_MASTER is not set # # Dallas's 1-wire bus # # CONFIG_W1 is not set # # Hardware Monitoring support # # CONFIG_HWMON is not set # CONFIG_HWMON_VID is not set # # Multifunction device drivers # # CONFIG_MFD_SM501 is not set # # Multimedia devices # # CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV is not set # # Digital Video Broadcasting Devices # # # Graphics support # # CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT is not set # CONFIG_FB is not set # CONFIG_FB_IBM_GXT4500 is not set # # Console display driver support # # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE is not set CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y # # Sound # # CONFIG_SOUND is not set # # HID Devices # # CONFIG_HID is not set # # USB support # CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD=y CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI=y CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_EHCI=y # CONFIG_USB is not set # # NOTE: USB_STORAGE enables SCSI, and 'SCSI disk support' # # # USB Gadget Support # # CONFIG_USB_GADGET is not set # # MMC/SD Card support # # CONFIG_MMC is not set # # LED devices # # CONFIG_NEW_LEDS is not set # # LED drivers # # # LED Triggers # # # InfiniBand support # # CONFIG_INFINIBAND is not set # # EDAC - error detection and reporting (RAS) (EXPERIMENTAL) # # # Real Time Clock # # CONFIG_RTC_CLASS is not set # # DMA Engine support # # CONFIG_DMA_ENGINE is not set # # DMA Clients # # # DMA Devices # # # Auxiliary Display support # # # Virtualization # # # File systems # # CONFIG_INOTIFY is not set # CONFIG_QUOTA is not set # CONFIG_DNOTIFY is not set # CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS is not set # CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS is not set # CONFIG_FUSE_FS is not set # # Pseudo filesystems # CONFIG_PROC_FS=y # CONFIG_PROC_KCORE is not set # CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL is not set CONFIG_SYSFS=y CONFIG_TMPFS=y # CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL is not set # CONFIG_HUGETLBFS is not set # CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is not set CONFIG_RAMFS=y # CONFIG_CONFIGFS_FS is not set # # Miscellaneous filesystems # # # Native Language Support # # CONFIG_NLS is not set # # Library routines # # CONFIG_CRC_CCITT is not set # CONFIG_CRC16 is not set # CONFIG_CRC32 is not set # CONFIG_LIBCRC32C is not set CONFIG_PLIST=y CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM=y CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT=y # # Instrumentation Support # # CONFIG_PROFILING is not set # # Kernel hacking # # CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME is not set # CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK is not set CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y # CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS is not set # CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is not set # CONFIG_HEADERS_CHECK is not set CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ=y CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=21 CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP=y # CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS is not set # CONFIG_TIMER_STATS is not set CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK=y CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES=y CONFIG_DEBUG_PI_LIST=y # CONFIG_RT_MUTEX_TESTER is not set # CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK is not set CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP=y # CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS is not set CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT=y # CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE is not set # CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is not set CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST=y CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING=y # CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST is not set # CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION is not set CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW=y CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE=y CONFIG_DEBUGGER=y CONFIG_XMON=y CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT=y CONFIG_XMON_DISASSEMBLY=y CONFIG_IRQSTACKS=y # CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT is not set # CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG is not set # # Security options # # CONFIG_KEYS is not set # CONFIG_SECURITY is not set # # Cryptographic options # # CONFIG_CRYPTO is not set - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/