[Bug 1350522] Re: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc

2014-09-02 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.16.0-12.18 --- linux (3.16.0-12.18) utopic; urgency=low [ Paolo Pisati ] * Revert [Debian] dtb: symlink /lib/firmware/(uname -r)/device-tree to /boot/dtb-(uname -r) to make flash-kernel happy * Revert [Debian] dtb: don't remove a

[Bug 1350522] Re: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc

2014-08-29 Thread Stefan Bader
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Utopic) Status: Confirmed = Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1350522 Title: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc To manage notifications

[Bug 1350522] Re: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc

2014-08-28 Thread Stefan Bader
Ok, finally it seems I found the problem. It seems Xen setup code is accidentally setting up the kernel page tables in a way that causes the last 2G of memory to be identically mapped (kernel mappings). This would just work normally because the page table that covers the first 1G would

[Bug 1350522] Re: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc

2014-08-28 Thread Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot
** Tags added: patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1350522 Title: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1350522] Re: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc

2014-08-08 Thread Stefan Bader
No, this has been identified as an unfortunate fallout from Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization. I am working on it. But right now you would need to re-compile the kernel and disable CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE. I shared the kernel that I used to confirm this on

[Bug 1350522] Re: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc

2014-08-07 Thread Bastelnerk
I'm running ubuntu 14.04 on Jiffybox, a German ec2 alternative. Due to an unrelated problem with the 3.13 kernel (see https://www.df.eu/forum/threads/72787-CONFIG_FHANDLE-Support-im-Jiffy- Kernel?highlight=kernel if curious), it is not possible to use the stock kernel: it will not boot. After

[Bug 1350522] Re: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc

2014-08-01 Thread Stefan Bader
So I guess the next question would be whether in all 95% which do work (deducted from the ~5% failing), are all Xen version != 4.2 or a mix of versions, including 4.2? At least the fact that this persists while only rebooting make some hypervisor code involvement likely. The log looks to me like

[Bug 1350522] Re: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc

2014-08-01 Thread Stefan Bader
One good thing: I get the same output when I start a utopic cloid-image based PV guest on a Ubuntu 14.04 based Xen host (Xen-4.4). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1350522 Title: EC2

[Bug 1350522] Re: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc

2014-08-01 Thread Stefan Bader
erge: d877215 b7dd0e3 Author: Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org Date: Wed Jul 30 09:00:20 2014 -0700 Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.16-rc7-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/li Pull Xen fix from David Vrabel: Fix BUG when trying to expand the grant table. This

[Bug 1350522] Re: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc

2014-08-01 Thread Stefan Bader
Unfortunately it seems that patch (alone?) isn't helping. Or I made some mistake in picking things. At least it still happens on th ePV guest (but not on a HVM guest which really points to this patch). :/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1350522] Re: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc

2014-07-31 Thread Chris J Arges
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Utopic) Importance: High Status: Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1350522 Title: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc To manage

[Bug 1350522] Re: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc

2014-07-31 Thread Chris J Arges
Ben, A few questions that would be useful to answer: * It would be useful to correlate Xen hypervisor versions. On each launch with warnings we need to grep 'Xen version' in dmesg. * Can you add the following to kernel cmdline options to get additional debug information: initcall_debug debug

[Bug 1350522] Re: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc

2014-07-31 Thread Ubuntu QA Website
This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker. A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1350522 ** Tags added: iso-testing -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1350522] Re: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc

2014-07-31 Thread Ben Howard
apport information ** Description changed: During Alpha-2 automated testing, I saw the following in a log: 19:35:02 [2.475810] systemd-udevd[95]: starting version 204 19:35:02 [2.547049] [ cut here ] 19:35:02 [2.547065] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 97 at

[Bug 1350522] Re: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc

2014-07-31 Thread Ben Howard
* It would be useful to correlate Xen hypervisor versions. On each launch with warnings we need to grep 'Xen version' in dmesg. Xen 4.2, w/ Amazon patches. * Can you add the following to kernel cmdline options to get additional debug information: initcall_debug debug ignore_loglevel LOGLEVEL=8

[Bug 1350522] Re: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc

2014-07-30 Thread Ben Howard
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected ec2-images third-party-packages utopic ** Description changed: During Alpha-2 automated testing, I saw the following in a log: 19:35:02 [2.475810] systemd-udevd[95]: starting version 204 19:35:02 [2.547049] [ cut

[Bug 1350522] Re: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc

2014-07-30 Thread Ben Howard
I am seeing this happen in about 5% of the launches on EC2. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1350522 Title: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 1350522] Re: EC2 kernel crash due to vmalloc

2014-07-30 Thread Ben Howard
Another stack trace from another instance: 20:34:16 [2.425540] systemd-udevd[95]: starting version 204 20:34:16 [2.576097] [ cut here ] 20:34:16 [2.576111] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 98 at /build/buildd/linux-3.16.0/mm/vmalloc.c:128