From aa83aa40ed2ae113d9ee5529cdd9e8c0e5fabe61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Jones Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:59:51 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] single bit flip detector In cases where we detect a single bit has been flipped, we spew the usual slab corruption message, which users instantly think is a kernel bug. In a lot of cases, single bit errors are down to bad memory, or other hardware failure. This patch adds an extra line to the slab debug messages in those cases, in the hope that users will try memtest before they report a bug. 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b Single bit error detected. Possibly bad RAM. Run memtest86. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/slab.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index 792bfe3..3dbd6f4 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -1683,10 +1683,32 @@ static void poison_obj(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *addr, unsigned char val) static void dump_line(char *data, int offset, int limit) { int i; + unsigned char error = 0; + int bad_count = 0; + printk(KERN_ERR "%03x:", offset); - for (i = 0; i < limit; i++) + for (i = 0; i < limit; i++) { + if (data[offset + i] != POISON_FREE) { + error = data[offset + i]; + bad_count++; + } printk(" %02x", (unsigned char)data[offset + i]); + } printk("\n"); + + if (bad_count == 1) { + error ^= POISON_FREE; + if (!(error & (error - 1))) { + printk(KERN_ERR "Single bit error detected. Probably " + "bad RAM.\n"); +#ifdef CONFIG_X86 + printk(KERN_ERR "Run memtest86+ or a similar memory " + "test tool.\n"); +#else + printk(KERN_ERR "Run a memory test tool.\n"); +#endif + } + } } #endif -- 2.7.4