Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm1

[Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:13:14PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
>  > On 14/08/06, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
>  > >  > Aug 14 22:30:09 ltg01-fedora kernel: general protection fault: 0000 [#1]
>  > >  > Aug 14 22:30:09 ltg01-fedora kernel: 4K_STACKS PREEMPT SMP
>  > >  > Aug 14 22:30:09 ltg01-fedora kernel: last sysfs file: /devices/platform/i2c-9191/9191-0290/temp2_input
>  > >  > Aug 14 22:30:09 ltg01-fedora kernel: CPU:    0
>  > >  > Aug 14 22:30:09 ltg01-fedora kernel: EIP:    0060:[<c0205249>]    Not tainted VLI
>  > >  > Aug 14 22:30:09 ltg01-fedora kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246   (2.6.18-rc4-mm1 #101)
>  > >  > Aug 14 22:30:09 ltg01-fedora kernel: EIP is at __list_add+0x3d/0x7a
>  > >  > Aug 14 22:30:09 ltg01-fedora kernel: eax: 00000000   ebx: c0670a80   ecx: c038d4dc   edx: 00000000
>  > >  > Aug 14 22:30:09 ltg01-fedora kernel: esi: ffffffff   edi: f50ebee8   ebp: f50ebed0   esp: f50ebec4
>  > >
>  > > __list_add will still be dereferencing prev->next, so you should see exactly
>  > > the same gpf. Note that you're not triggering the BUG()'s here, you're hitting
>  > > some other fault just walking the list.
>  > 
>  > How can I debug this?
> 
> Not sure. I'm somewhat puzzled.
> Disassembling the Code: of your oops shows that we were trying to dereference esi,
> which was -1 for some bizarre reason.  (my objdump really hated disassembling that
> function, but I think thats my tools rather than breakage in the oops).
> 
> Question is how did that list member get to be -1 ?
> One pie-in-the-sky possibility is that we've corrupted memory recently, and
> this link-list manipulation just stumbled across it.  Note that the last file
> opened before we blew up was reading i2c.

Or cpufreq

Aug 14 15:35:10 ltg01-fedora kernel: last sysfs file: /devices/platform/i2c-9191/9191-0290/temp2_input

Aug 14 15:39:12 ltg01-fedora kernel: last sysfs file: /devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed

Aug 14 22:30:09 ltg01-fedora kernel: last sysfs file: /devices/platform/i2c-9191/9191-0290/temp2_input

I haven't seen this bug on previous (2006-08-08) mm snapshot. Here are new i2c patches
apple-motion-sensor-driver-kconfig-fix.patch
kill-include-linux-configh.patch - it's my patch, I'm testing it for tree days.


Aug 14 15:35:11 ltg01-fedora kernel:  <6>note: firefox-bin[2210] exited with preempt_count 1

Aug 14 15:39:13 ltg01-fedora kernel:  <6>note: sendmail[1719] exited with preempt_count 1

Aug 14 22:30:10 ltg01-fedora kernel:  <6>note: thunderbird-bin[2288] exited with preempt_count 1

Is it possible that this is a problem with net stack?

Binary search will take ages - I don't know how to reproduce this bug.

>  Can you try and reproduce this
> (if you can reproduce it at all) without the sensors stuff loaded ?
> 
> It's a long-shot, but without further clues, I'm stabbing in the dark.
> 
> 		Dave
> 

Regards,
Michal

-- 
Michal K. K. Piotrowski
LTG - Linux Testers Group
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