On Fri, Mar 24 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Brandon Low <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 03/24/06 at 03:39:34 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Brandon Low <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I hadn't noticed immediately in the ooops, but it is something to do
> > > > with the Hardware Abstraction Layer Daemon from http://freedesktop.org/Software/hal
> > > > I can't reproduce it without that daemon loaded either. I wonder if the
> > > > last accessed sysfs file mentioned in the oops (sda/size) is relevent
> > > > also.
> > > >
> > > > My exact steps (with hald loaded) are:
> > > > plug in ipod
> > > > mount /mnt/ipod
> > > > unzip -d /mnt/ipod rockbox.zip
> > > > eject /dev/sda
> > > > unplug ipod
> > > > immediately here, the oops prints.
> > >
> > > Still no joy, alas.
> > >
> > > git-cfq.patch plays with the elevator exit code for all IO schedulers.
> > > Would you be able to do
> > >
> > > wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16/2.6.16-mm1/broken-out/git-cfq.patch
> > > patch -p1 -R < git-cfq.patch
> > >
> > > and retest?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > It is definitely this patch. Identical steps (also used an untainted
> > kernel for both tests) on -mm1 with and without that patch, and when the
> > patch is reversed, I cannot cause the oops. I booted into single user
> > mode (to dodge tainting and any other weirdness), started the dbus
> > system message daemon and hald (which depends on dbus), then performed
> > the steps mentioned above.
> >
>
> Great. Thanks for working that out. It's time to add the dreaded Cc.
Can I see that oops?
--
Jens Axboe
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