Re: 2.5.47-ac4 panic on boot.

Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:28:15 -0800


Justin A wrote:
>
> I did that...
> Disabling PM made it boot:
>
> < CONFIG_PM=y
> < CONFIG_APM=m
> < # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
> < CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y
> < CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y
> < CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK=y
> < # CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT is not set
> < # CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set
> < # CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set
> ---
> > # CONFIG_PM is not set
>
> I think I still had swsusp on before I disabled PM...I will have to test more
> tomorrow to make sure thats it...
> Perhaps its the CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE that did it?

Could be...

> I had tried linux init=/bin/sh, which got to the shell, then 2 seconds later
> paniced, so I have a feeling its the idle thingy:)

slab runs a timer every couple of seconds to drain caches which could
otherwise be wasted-for-ever memory. So it looks like we don't get
to find out about abuse until much later. Damn.

Oh, it'd be interesting to enable memory debugging under the kernel-hacking
menu - that may trap the bug when it's happening.
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