[Click] Elements with large arrays - "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer..."

[Cliff Frey]

Beyers is correct.  However, you will still likely be limited to at most a
few hundred MB (and quite possibly much smaller).  If you want larger than
that, you probably want to go to x86-64.

Cliff

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Beyers Cronje <bcronje at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jakub,
>
> Use click_lalloc() instead of new[] too allocate memory for kernel module.
> This function will either use kmalloc or vmalloc depending on the size
> requested. This might resolve your problem.
> Note to use click_lfree() to free memory allocated through click_lalloc().
>
> Beyers
>
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Jakub Dudek <qubu88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Experts,
> >
> > I'm implementing own elements in click, which require large arrays. When
> > the array size is lager than 2^21 I'm getting the kernel panic with
> > following errors:
> >
> > [  389.399177] click: starting router thread pid 16711 (f7685a80)
> > [  389.409357] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
> > virtual address 00000000
> > [  389.409365] printing eip: f8f0aaf2 *pde = 00000000
> > [  389.409371] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
> > [  389.409375] Modules linked in: click proclikefs ppdev lp speedstep_lib
> > cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_stats cpufreq_conservative
> drm
> > binfmt_misc fuse loop snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_pcm
> i2c_i801
> > snd_seq i2c_core snd_timer shpchp snd pcspkr rng_core soundcore
> > snd_page_alloc pci_hotplug parport_pc parport psmouse evdev serio_raw
> > button ext3 jbd mbcache sd_mod sr_mod cdrom ata_generic usbhid hid
> ata_piix
> > uhci_hcd tg3 libata scsi_mod 3c59x mii ehci_hcd thermal processor usbcore
> > [  389.409411]
> > [  389.409415] Pid: 16707, comm: click-install Not tainted (2.6.24.7 #1)
> > [  389.409417] EIP: 0060:[<f8f0aaf2>] EFLAGS: 00010202 CPU: 0
> > [  389.409766] EIP is at
> > _ZN15DirectFlowTable10initializeEP12ErrorHandler+0x42/0x60 [click]
> > [  389.409770] EAX: 00000000 EBX: d6c76ea0 ECX: 000000d0 EDX: 0000000b
> > [  389.409773] ESI: 3b9aca00 EDI: 9022c5a7 EBP: 1294873d ESP: e4d73d8c
> > [  389.409775]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
> > [  389.409779] Process click-install (pid: 16707, ti=e4d72000
> task=f76b91a0
> > task.ti=e4d72000)
> > [  389.409781] Stack: 00000000 00000000 0000005c f77fe800 00000000
> d6ef6000
> > f8eb0dd0 e4d73dc4
> > [  389.409789]        d6ef6000 f8f5c3dd d6c76ea0 00000000 d6ef6000
> 01000006
> > f8f6b728 00000000
> > [  389.409795]        d6ef6000 f8f58d40 00000000 00000000 f8f5b69d
> 00000002
> > 00000000 f8f58d40
> > [  389.409802] Call Trace:
> > [  389.409815]  [<f8eb0dd0>]
> > _ZN6Router10initializeEP12ErrorHandler+0x450/0x560 [click]
> > [  389.410063]  [<f8f58d00>] _ZN5Null8D0Ev+0x0/0x16 [click]
> > [  389.410305]  [<f8f424e2>]
> > _ZL12write_configRK6StringP7ElementPvP12ErrorHandler+0x122/0x1e0 [click]
> > [  389.410552]  [<f8ea8af7>]
> > _ZNK7Handler10call_writeERK6StringP7ElementP2EH+0xb7/0x160 [click]
> > [  389.410785]  [<f8f4530d>] handler_do_write+0x23d/0x9d0 [click]
> > [  389.411028]  [<c0160abd>] __alloc_pages+0x6c/0x2fc
> > [  389.411045]  [<f8e8383d>] click_lalloc+0x2d/0x60 [click]
> > [  389.411260]  [<f8e777c7>] _ZN6String11create_memoEPcii+0x37/0x40
> [click]
> > [  389.411469]  [<f8e77a38>] _ZN6String14append_garbageEi+0xa8/0x150
> > [click]
> > [  389.411684]  [<c01e49d8>] copy_from_user+0x2a/0x112
> > [  389.411695]  [<c0136596>] finish_wait+0x2a/0x4d
> > [  389.411704]  [<f8f45b7b>] handler_flush+0xdb/0x120 [click]
> > [  389.411950]  [<c013650b>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x31
> > [  389.411959]  [<c0179ac7>] filp_close+0x32/0x58
> > [  389.411963]  [<c017bc52>] sys_write+0x41/0x67
> > [  389.411970]  [<c0179b51>] sys_close+0x64/0x96
> > [  389.411975]  [<c0103ee6>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6b/0xa1
> > [  389.411988]  [<c02e0000>] tcp6_seq_show+0x21c/0x4d4
> > [  389.412001]  =======================
> > [  389.412003] Code: 6c 24 14 31 ed e8 32 fd 22 c7 0f b6 4b 3c 89 d7 f7
> ee
> > 01 c7 b8 04 00 00 00 11 d5 89 7b 44 d3 e0 89 6b 48 e8 81 8d f7 ff 89 43
> 4c
> > <c7> 00 00 00 00 00 31 c0 8b 5c 24 08 8b 74 24 0c 8b 7c 24 10 8b
> > [  389.412041] EIP: [<f8f0aaf2>]
> > _ZN15DirectFlowTable10initializeEP12ErrorHandler+0x42/0x60 [click] SS:ESP
> > 0068:e4d73d8c
> > [  389.412311] ---[ end trace 39367dedfd773143 ]---
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there any way to fix this problem? I'm using Debian with kernel
> 2.6.24.7
> > and click router in kernel mode. Memory is used in 10%.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > --
> > Jakub Dudek
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