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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: modules oops in 2.5.52
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:11:21 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021219024313.759EC2C075@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "18 Dec 2002 17:14:05 -0800." <1040260444.1316.4.camel@ixodes.goop.org>

In message <1040260444.1316.4.camel@ixodes.goop.org> you write:
> Hi,
> 
> I just had an oops in the modules code:
> 
> Dec 18 16:58:59 ixodes kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virt
ual address f8980924
> Dec 18 16:58:59 ixodes kernel:  printing eip:
> Dec 18 16:58:59 ixodes kernel: f896756d
> Dec 18 16:58:59 ixodes kernel: *pde = 01bfc067
> Dec 18 16:58:59 ixodes kernel: *pte = 00000000
> Dec 18 16:58:59 ixodes kernel: Oops: 0000
> Dec 18 16:58:59 ixodes kernel: CPU:    0
> Dec 18 16:58:59 ixodes kernel: EIP:    0060:[<f896756d>]    Not tainted
> Dec 18 16:58:59 ixodes kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282
> Dec 18 16:58:59 ixodes kernel: EIP is at __exitfn+0xd/0x4c [parport_pc]

Actually, you had an oops in the parport_pc code, in
cleanup_module().  Now, *why* that oopsed, I don't know...

> Now, any process which touches /proc/modules hangs, I guess because a
> lock was being held.

Yes.  Changing this would be particularly interesting, since you don't
want a simultaneous "modprobe" to fail.

Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-19  2:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-19  1:14 modules oops in 2.5.52 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2002-12-19  2:11 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2002-12-19  4:19   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2002-12-19  5:55     ` Rusty Russell
2002-12-19  6:59       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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