Bug 196658

Summary: bus error happens with memset
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: William Bai <snowingbear>
Component: kernelAssignee: Luming Yu <luyu>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 4.0CC: jbaron, peterm
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Description William Bai 2006-06-26 10:01:44 UTC
Description of problem:
    Bus error in memset when used with shmat(hugetlb), memcpy. It's OK on 
x86_64(hugetlb's pagesize 2MB), but wrong on ia64(hugetlb's pagesize 256MB)


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
    The following program can duplicate the bus error.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/shm.h>
 
int main()
{
   int i = 0;
   int shmid[3];
   void *addr[3];
   for (i=0; i<3; i++) {
     shmid[i] = shmget(IPC_PRIVATE, 256*1024*1024ULL,  
SHM_HUGETLB|IPC_CREAT|SHM_R|SHM_W);
     if (shmid[i] < 0) {
         perror("shmget");
         break;
     }
   }
   
   addr[0] = shmat(shmid[0], NULL, SHM_RND | SHM_UNLOCK);
   printf("addr0 is %lx\n", addr[0]);
   addr[1] = shmat(shmid[1], (void *)addr[0]+256 * 1024 *1024ULL, SHM_RND | 
SHM_UNLOCK);
   printf("addr1 is %lx\n", addr[1]);
   memcpy((void *)addr[1], (void *)addr[0], 256*1024*1024ULL);
   addr[2] = shmat(shmid[2], NULL, SHM_RND | SHM_UNLOCK);
   printf("addr2 is %lx\n", addr[2]);
   memset((void *)addr[2], 0, 256*1024*1024ULL);
}

Comment 1 Jason Baron 2006-06-26 14:11:06 UTC
*** Bug 196659 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 William Bai 2006-06-29 10:01:54 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Description of problem:
>     Bus error in memset when used with shmat(hugetlb), memcpy. It's OK on 
> x86_64(hugetlb's pagesize 2MB), but wrong on ia64(hugetlb's pagesize 256MB)
> How reproducible:
> Steps to Reproduce:
>     The following program can duplicate the bus error.
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <sys/shm.h>
>  
> int main()
> {
>    int i = 0;
>    int shmid[3];
>    void *addr[3];
>    for (i=0; i<3; i++) {
>      shmid[i] = shmget(IPC_PRIVATE, 256*1024*1024ULL,  
> SHM_HUGETLB|IPC_CREAT|SHM_R|SHM_W);
>      if (shmid[i] < 0) {
>          perror("shmget");
>          break;
>      }
>    }
>    
>    addr[0] = shmat(shmid[0], NULL, SHM_RND | SHM_UNLOCK);
>    printf("addr0 is %lx\n", addr[0]);
>    addr[1] = shmat(shmid[1], (void *)addr[0]+256 * 1024 *1024ULL, SHM_RND | 
> SHM_UNLOCK);
>    printf("addr1 is %lx\n", addr[1]);
>    memcpy((void *)addr[1], (void *)addr[0], 256*1024*1024ULL);
>    addr[2] = shmat(shmid[2], NULL, SHM_RND | SHM_UNLOCK);
>    printf("addr2 is %lx\n", addr[2]);
>    memset((void *)addr[2], 0, 256*1024*1024ULL);
> }

    To add up, it's not caused by shmget(). I have added the following 
in /etc/sysctl.conf.

vm.nr_hugepages =              24
kernel.shmmax   =       684354560
kernel.shmmni   =              24
kernel.shmall   =         268435456

    I didn't add shmdt and shmctl, because it has been interrupted.

Comment 3 Luming Yu 2007-07-27 15:55:13 UTC
Is it reproducible with upstream kernel?

Comment 4 William Bai 2007-08-07 14:17:48 UTC
    This problem happens on RHEL4U2, but it seems ok on RHEL4U4.(In reply to 
comment #3)
> Is it reproducible with upstream kernel?




Comment 5 Luming Yu 2007-08-07 14:24:14 UTC
thanks for the update, closing it..