From: Pedro Ribeiro on
On 30 July 2010 22:10, Jason Wessel <jason.wessel(a)windriver.com> wrote:
> On 07/28/2010 08:30 PM, Pedro Ribeiro wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I hit a bug when resuming with TuxOnIce. At the middle of a resume, it
>> says Compress Read -22 and locks up. I caught the stack trace with kdb
>> and took photos of that.
>> I'm running 2.6.35-rc6 on a Lenovo T400. I have an encrypted LUKS
>> partition (aes-cbc-essiv-128) which contains an LVM2 with my root,
>> swap and home partitions inside.
>>
>> It seems that kcryptd caused the trouble. I've had other lockups with
>> TuxOnIce that relate to kcryptd too, but I never caught them with kdb,
>>
>> After printing the stack trace I decided to see the output of the ps
>> command. As I was scrolling the processes shown, kdb oops'ed and
>> called itself. I also took photos of that kdb's own stack trace. I
>> then tried the ps command again, but this time the stack trace was
>> looping every few seconds (I took another photo of that). After a
>> while it just panicked and kept calling itself on a loop. I rebooted
>> and was able to successfully resume the TuxOnIce image.
>>
>> The stack trace means little to me, but might be helpful to you.
>>
>> The photos are:
>> kcryptd_oops [1,2,3] - TuxOnIce compress read -22 error
>> kdb_oops [1,2,3,4] - KDB oopses when scrolling output of kdb ps command
>>
>
> You don't happen to have the vmlinux file around which corresponded to
> that crashed kernel do you?
>
> If so, can you run:
>
> addr2line -f -e vmlinux 0xffffffff81030512
> addr2line -f -e vmlinux 0xffffffff810ad1d0
> addr2line -f -e vmlinux 0xffffffff810add3c
>
> And send me the output?
>
> I have a pretty good idea about what the problem is but it would be
> interesting to know the exact failure point if the vmlinux file will
> tell us. � �In a nut shell, the "ps" command in kdb does not use
> probe_kernel_address() to safely read memory in all instances.
> Presently the ps function assumes that if the task struct was ok the
> rest of memory accesses in this region would be ok as well.
>

Not sure if this is what you want...

addr2line -f -e vmlinux 0xffffffff81030512:
task_curr
??:0

addr2line -f -e vmlinux 0xffffffff810ad1d0
kdb_ps1
??:0

addr2line -f -e vmlinux 0xffffffff810add3c
kdb_task_state_char
??:0


>
>
>> kdb_blows_up - final stack trace being shown in a cycle before PANIC:
>>
> Once kdb oopses the system is pretty much toast. �There are some limited
> things you can do at that point like at least get a stack trace so the
> original problem can be found.
>
> Jason.
>

Can you tell me how to do that? So that when it happens next time I
have the chance to take a photo...

Regards,
Pedro
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