That was quick.
Thanks Dave!
On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Dave Anderson <anderson(a)redhat.com> wrote:
 ----- Original Message -----
 > In this mode, the freelist can be an object and if the slab is full,
 > there is no freelist. On the next free, an object is recycled to be used
 > as the freelist but not clean-up. This change will go through only
 > known freed objects to prevent errors of wrong/corrupt freelist entries.
 >
 > Related to the linux kernel commit: b03a017bebc403d40aa53a092e79b3
 020786537d.
 Thanks Thomas -- the patch queued for crash-7.1.8:
   
https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/commit/
 59fbaf3e4b030b150f750f5b0ac7dfc3eafaa78f
 Dave
 > ---
 >  memory.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 >  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
 >
 > diff --git a/memory.c b/memory.c
 > index 4eac413..774d090 100644
 > --- a/memory.c
 > +++ b/memory.c
 > @@ -9880,6 +9880,7 @@ ignore_cache(struct meminfo *si, char *name)
 >  #define SLAB_MAGIC_DESTROYED    0xB2F23C5AUL    /* slab has been
 destroyed
 >  */
 >
 >  #define SLAB_CFLGS_BUFCTL       0x020000UL      /* bufctls in own cache
 */
 > +#define SLAB_CFLGS_OBJFREELIST  0x40000000UL    /* Freelist as an
 object */
 >
 >  #define KMEM_SLAB_ADDR          (1)
 >  #define KMEM_BUFCTL_ADDR        (2)
 > @@ -12439,11 +12440,13 @@ gather_slab_free_list_percpu(struct meminfo
 *si)
 >  static void
 >  gather_slab_free_list_slab_overload_page(struct meminfo *si)
 >  {
 > -     int i, active;
 > +     int i, active, start_offset;
 >       ulong obj, objnr, cnt, freelist;
 >       unsigned char *ucharptr;
 >       unsigned short *ushortptr;
 >       unsigned int *uintptr;
 > +     unsigned int cache_flags, overload_active;
 > +     ulong slab_overload_page;
 >
 >       if (CRASHDEBUG(1))
 >               fprintf(fp, "slab page: %lx active: %ld si->c_num:
%ld\n",
 > @@ -12452,12 +12455,19 @@ gather_slab_free_list_slab_
 overload_page(struct
 > meminfo *si)
 >       if (si->s_inuse == si->c_num )
 >               return;
 >
 > -     readmem(si->slab - OFFSET(page_lru) + OFFSET(page_freelist),
 > +     slab_overload_page = si->slab - OFFSET(page_lru);
 > +     readmem(slab_overload_page + OFFSET(page_freelist),
 >               KVADDR, &freelist, sizeof(void *), "page freelist",
 >               FAULT_ON_ERROR);
 >          readmem(freelist, KVADDR, si->freelist,
 >               si->freelist_index_size * si->c_num,
 >                  "freelist array", FAULT_ON_ERROR);
 > +     readmem(si->cache+OFFSET(kmem_cache_s_flags),
 > +             KVADDR, &cache_flags, sizeof(uint),
 > +             "kmem_cache_s flags", FAULT_ON_ERROR);
 > +        readmem(slab_overload_page + OFFSET(page_active),
 > +                KVADDR, &overload_active, sizeof(uint),
 > +                "active", FAULT_ON_ERROR);
 >
 >       BNEG(si->addrlist, sizeof(ulong) * (si->c_num+1));
 >       cnt = objnr = 0;
 > @@ -12466,14 +12476,22 @@ gather_slab_free_list_slab_
 overload_page(struct
 > meminfo *si)
 >       uintptr = NULL;
 >       active = si->s_inuse;
 >
 > +     /*
 > +      * On an OBJFREELIST slab, the object might have been recycled
 > +      * and everything before the active count can be random data.
 > +      */
 > +     start_offset = 0;
 > +     if (cache_flags & SLAB_CFLGS_OBJFREELIST)
 > +             start_offset = overload_active;
 > +
 >       switch (si->freelist_index_size)
 >       {
 > -     case 1: ucharptr = (unsigned char *)si->freelist; break;
 > -     case 2: ushortptr = (unsigned short *)si->freelist; break;
 > -     case 4: uintptr = (unsigned int *)si->freelist; break;
 > +     case 1: ucharptr = (unsigned char *)si->freelist + start_offset;
 break;
 > +     case 2: ushortptr = (unsigned short *)si->freelist + start_offset;
 break;
 > +     case 4: uintptr = (unsigned int *)si->freelist + start_offset;
 break;
 >       }
 >
 > -     for (i = 0; i < si->c_num; i++) {
 > +     for (i = start_offset; i < si->c_num; i++) {
 >               switch (si->freelist_index_size)
 >               {
 >               case 1: objnr = (ulong)*ucharptr++; break;
 > --
 > 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020
 >
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