geting weird semi-random panic on kmalloc

NorthPole morfeas3000 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 22 12:27:52 EDT 2012


Hi...

The virtual machine is supposed to run on 128 mb ram and according to the
batman folks its more than enough

How can I force a backtrace?

(kfree is supposed to be called on the list after the desired number of
nodes is  allocated but it never gets there )

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Mulyadi Santosa
<mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi...
>
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:50 AM, NorthPole <morfeas3000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > when I run the kernel code on an open-wrt build for x86 which is run
> > virtualized under a standard qemu running on debian squeeze produces this
> > output
> > http://pastebin.com/tY3Vkzvw
> > (in short it prints everything as its supposed to do for a random number
> of
> > iterations between 3 and 24 and the the kernel oops happens)
>
> I have no idea on what kind of modification openwrt folks do on top of
> Linux kernel, but there is a chance the kernel space smaller or change
> the way slab/slub/slob allocator works. In essence, the crash might
> happen due to memory shortage or something like that.
>
> Can you force a backtrace?
>
> PS: I see no kfree() on the pastebin, is that true?
>
> --
> regards,
>
> Mulyadi Santosa
> Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
>
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>
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