On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:19:41 -0500
Dave Anderson <anderson(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Jeff Layton wrote:
> I was trying to run crash against a live rawhide kernel and am
> getting some errors when I try to start it:
>
> crash: invalid task address in pid_hash: ccccccccccccca84
> crash: invalid task address in pid_hash: ccccccccccccca84
> ...
> crash: invalid task address in pid_hash: ccccccccccccca84
>
> crash: cannot gather a stable task list via pid_hash (500
> retries)
>
> ...and then crash exits. There are a few messages in dmesg:
>
> crash memory driver: version 1.0
> crash memory driver: !page_is_ram(pfn: 61000000c)
>
> Relevant packages:
>
> kernel-2.6.24-0.62.rc3.git5.fc9.x86_64
> kernel-debuginfo-2.6.24-0.62.rc3.git5.fc9.x86_64
> crash-4.0-4.10.x86_64
>
> ... the host is a FV xen guest (but that shouldn't matter, should
> it?).
>
> I'm hoping I'm just doing something wrong, but I don't see anything
> right offhand.
>
Hard to do anything wrong, i.e., you just have to enter "crash".
With a kernel that new, it certainly could be shifting sands syndrome.
It did get quite a long way before failing. I wonder if something's
changed upstream associated with the pid_hash code? Can you verify
that the tt->refresh_hash_table gets set to
refresh_hlist_task_table_v2()?
Ahh, I think a bunch of the new pid namespace stuff was merged
recently. That might be the culprit.
If the system is accessible to me (reply offline), I'll be happy
to
take a look.
Will do, thanks!
--
Jeff Layton <jlayton(a)redhat.com>