Crash during vmcore_init

Dave Young dyoung at redhat.com
Tue Nov 15 03:14:31 EST 2011


On 11/15/2011 02:50 AM, Tim Hartrick wrote:

> 
> Wang,
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to look at this.
> 
> 
> Here is the result from a 2.6.38 kernel used as base kernel and
> crashkernel:
> 
> [    1.314762] WARNING:
> at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:83 __ioremap_caller
> +0x350/0x3d0()
> [    1.324394] Hardware name: PowerEdge R710
> [    1.328390] Modules linked in:
> [    1.331443] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.38-8-server
> #42-Ubuntu
> [    1.338128] Call Trace:
> [    1.340572]  [<ffffffff81065d1f>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
> [    1.346741]  [<ffffffff81065d7a>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
> [    1.352729]  [<ffffffff81040eb0>] ? __ioremap_caller+0x350/0x3d0
> [    1.358726]  [<ffffffff810d8575>] ? call_rcu_sched+0x15/0x20
> [    1.364375]  [<ffffffff8103452e>] ? copy_oldmem_page+0x4e/0xc0
> [    1.370194]  [<ffffffff8113c39e>] ? __purge_vmap_area_lazy+0xfe/0x1f0
> [    1.376622]  [<ffffffff81040f64>] ? ioremap_cache+0x14/0x20
> [    1.382176]  [<ffffffff8103452e>] ? copy_oldmem_page+0x4e/0xc0
> [    1.388002]  [<ffffffff811cad0a>] ? read_from_oldmem+0x7a/0xb0
> [    1.393827]  [<ffffffff81b099a0>] ? merge_note_headers_elf64.clone.3
> +0x6c/0x214
> [    1.401115]  [<ffffffff8103456a>] ? copy_oldmem_page+0x8a/0xc0
> [    1.406936]  [<ffffffff811cad0a>] ? read_from_oldmem+0x7a/0xb0
> [    1.412752]  [<ffffffff81b09e79>] ? vmcore_init+0x0/0x73
> [    1.418051]  [<ffffffff81b09c52>] ? parse_crash_elf64_headers
> +0x10a/0x211
> [    1.424825]  [<ffffffff8103456a>] ? copy_oldmem_page+0x8a/0xc0
> [    1.430640]  [<ffffffff81b09e79>] ? vmcore_init+0x0/0x73
> [    1.435940]  [<ffffffff81b09dd4>] ? parse_crash_elf_headers
> +0x7b/0x120
> [    1.442450]  [<ffffffff81b09e9c>] ? vmcore_init+0x23/0x73
> [    1.447839]  [<ffffffff81002175>] ? do_one_initcall+0x45/0x190
> [    1.453661]  [<ffffffff81ae1dff>] ? kernel_init+0x169/0x1f3
> [    1.459218]  [<ffffffff8100cde4>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
> [    1.465298]  [<ffffffff81ae1c96>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1f3
> [    1.470680]  [<ffffffff8100cde0>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10
> 
> The command line for the crashkernel:
> 
> [    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-server
> root=UUID=ea7a5a27-d58f-469f-a19c-3e65b69587f6 ro console=ttyS0,115200n8
> irqpoll maxcpus=1 nousb memmap=exactmap memmap=640K at 0K
> memmap=261484K at 623232K elfcorehdr=884716K memmap=252K#2087484K
> 
> The contents of /proc/iomem while running the base kernel:
> 
> 00000000-0000ffff : reserved
> 00010000-0009ffff : System RAM
> 000a0000-000bffff : PCI Bus 0000:00
> 00100000-7f678fff : System RAM
>   01000000-015e1d6c : Kernel code
>   015e1d6d-01aca17f : Kernel data
>   01bae000-01d03fff : Kernel bss
>   26000000-35ffffff : Crash kernel
> 7f679000-7f68efff : reserved
>   7f679000-7f679003 : APEI ERST
>   7f67900c-7f679016 : APEI ERST
>   7f679060-7f67906b : APEI ERST
>   7f68d000-7f68efff : APEI ERST
> 7f68f000-7f6cdfff : ACPI Tables
> 7f6ce000-7fffffff : reserved
> 80000000-fdffffff : PCI Bus 0000:00
>   d5800000-d5ffffff : PCI Bus 0000:08
>     d5800000-d5ffffff : 0000:08:03.0
>   d6000000-d9ffffff : PCI Bus 0000:01
>     d6000000-d7ffffff : 0000:01:00.0
>       d6000000-d7ffffff : bnx2
>     d8000000-d9ffffff : 0000:01:00.1
>       d8000000-d9ffffff : bnx2
>   da000000-ddffffff : PCI Bus 0000:02
>     da000000-dbffffff : 0000:02:00.0
>       da000000-dbffffff : bnx2
>     dc000000-ddffffff : 0000:02:00.1
>       dc000000-ddffffff : bnx2
>   de000000-deffffff : PCI Bus 0000:08
>     de000000-de00ffff : 0000:08:03.0
>     de7fc000-de7fffff : 0000:08:03.0
>     de800000-deffffff : 0000:08:03.0
>   df0ff800-df0ffbff : 0000:00:1a.7
>     df0ff800-df0ffbff : ehci_hcd
>   df0ffc00-df0fffff : 0000:00:1d.7
>     df0ffc00-df0fffff : ehci_hcd
>   df100000-df2fffff : PCI Bus 0000:03
>     df100000-df1fffff : 0000:03:00.0
>     df2ec000-df2effff : 0000:03:00.0
>       df2ec000-df2effff : mpt
>     df2f0000-df2fffff : 0000:03:00.0
>       df2f0000-df2fffff : mpt
>   e0000000-efffffff : PCI MMCONFIG 0000 [bus 00-ff]
>     e0000000-efffffff : reserved
>       e0000000-efffffff : pnp 00:09
> fe000000-ffffffff : reserved
>   fec00000-fec003ff : IOAPIC 0
>   fec80000-fec803ff : IOAPIC 1
>   fed00000-fed003ff : HPET 0
>   fed40000-fed44fff : PCI Bus 0000:00
>   fed90000-fed91fff : pnp 00:0b
>   fee00000-fee00fff : Local APIC
> 100000000-c7fffffff : System RAM
> 
> 
> tim
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 13:39 +0000, WANG Cong wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:39:05 -0700, Tim Hartrick wrote:
>>
>>> Kexec,
>>>
>>> I have been experiencing the crash below on Ubuntu 10.04 running
>>> 2.6.32-34-server and 2.6.38-8-server as the crashkernel on X86_64. The
>>> tools are:
>>>
>>> kexec-tools	1:2.0.2-1ubuntu3
>>> makedumpfile	1.3.7-2
>>> kdump-tools	1.3.7-2
>>>
>>> I would be interested to know if this is a known problem and if so
>>> whether or not there is a patch in the pipeline to correct the problem.
>>>
>>> I will be happy to provide any other details that are required including
>>> debug builds if necessary.
>> ....
>>>
>>> [    1.322100] ioremap: invalid physical address db74000000000000 [  


Searching db74000000000000 got several similar cases of this, all are
about per cpu invalid crash_notes address, is this one more?

OTOH, Can you test latest mainline kernel?

ccing lkml and Tejun Heo

 
>>> 1.327919] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [    1.332530] WARNING:
>>> at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.32/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:120 __ioremap_caller
>>> +0x360/0x3d0()
>>
>> This probably means that kexec-tools passed some incorrect
>> kernel parameter to the second kernel.
>>
>> So, what is the cmdline of your second kernel? And what is your
>> /proc/iomem of your first kernel?
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
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Thanks
Dave



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