Bug 14011

Summary:	Kernel paging request failed in kmem_cache_alloc
Product:	Platform Specific/Hardware	Reporter:	Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw)
Component:	i386	Assignee:	platform_i386
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Severity:	normal	CC:	eparis
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.31-rc5-git5	Subsystem:
Regression:	Yes	Bisected commit-id:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	13615

Description Rafael J. Wysocki 2009-08-19 22:09:24 UTC

Subject    : Oops w/ 2.6.31-rc5-git5
Submitter  : Matthias Dahl <ml_kernel@mortal-soul.de>
Date       : 2009-08-10 22:26
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124993603825082&w=4

This entry is being used for tracking a regression from 2.6.30.  Please don't
close it until the problem is fixed in the mainline.

Comment 1 Rafael J. Wysocki 2009-08-26 21:01:36 UTC

On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Matthias Dahl<ml_kernel@mortal-soul.de>
> wrote:
> >> Can you reproduce the bug without the proprietary nvidia module that
> >> seems to be loaded?
> >
> > I am sorry but I forgot to test that and right now I am not very keen on
> > trying again since this is my primary machine and I had quite some fs
> > corruption (ext4 on md raid5 -> no barriers) the last times. :-( But this
> also
> > happened w/o Xorg ever being run during that session (though naturally the
> > nvidia kernel module was still loaded).
> 
> Sure, I can understand that. The bug looks like regular slab
> corruption which could have been caused the nvidia blob. So I think
> the issue should be closed unless someone can reproduce it without the
> blob.