From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux I2C <i2c@lm-sensors.org>,
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [crash, bisected] I2C, kobject (ffff81003e8c4160): tried to init an initialized object
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:54:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080717095411.GA23322@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080717094930.GA9044@elte.hu>
* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> found another bootup crash on an Athlon 64 X2 testsystem:
>
> [ 19.610000] bus: 'pci': add driver amd756_smbus
> [ 19.615204] initcall amd756_init+0x0/0x20 returned 0 after 9 msecs
> [ 19.620000] calling amd756_s4882_init+0x0/0x2d7
> [ 19.624242] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 19.628415] WARNING: at kernel/mutex.c:134 mutex_lock_nested+0xc0/0x267()
> [ 19.630000] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.26-tip #20066
> [ 19.630000] ---[ end trace 0e79313125261797 ]---
> [ 19.630000] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
> [ 19.630000] IP: [<ffffffff80861c66>] mutex_lock_nested+0x10d/0x267
turning off CONFIG_I2C_AMD756_S4882 works around this bug (as expected),
via the patch below.
Ingo
--------------------------->
commit 3f6403ab0bfdfca0cefbbc414afedc62734392f3
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Thu Jul 17 11:52:41 2008 +0200
i2c: work around boot crash in amd756_s4882_init()
work around:
[ 19.610000] bus: 'pci': add driver amd756_smbus
[ 19.615204] initcall amd756_init+0x0/0x20 returned 0 after 9 msecs
[ 19.620000] calling amd756_s4882_init+0x0/0x2d7
[ 19.624242] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 19.628415] WARNING: at kernel/mutex.c:134 mutex_lock_nested+0xc0/0x267()
[ 19.630000] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.26-tip #20066
[ 19.630000]
[ 19.630000] Call Trace:
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff802358f5>] warn_on_slowpath+0x58/0x7f
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff80263ac6>] ? ftrace_record_ip+0x20c/0x263
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff80514faa>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x8e/0x93
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff80507c44>] ? debug_locks_off+0x4/0x3c
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff80263ac6>] ? ftrace_record_ip+0x20c/0x263
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff8020b3a4>] ? mcount_call+0x5/0x31
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff80861c19>] mutex_lock_nested+0xc0/0x267
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff806e8ffd>] ? i2c_smbus_xfer+0x59/0x49c
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff80cc8575>] ? amd756_s4882_init+0x0/0x2d7
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff8020b3a4>] ? mcount_call+0x5/0x31
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff806e8ffd>] i2c_smbus_xfer+0x59/0x49c
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff80263ac6>] ? ftrace_record_ip+0x20c/0x263
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff80514faa>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x8e/0x93
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff80cc8584>] ? amd756_s4882_init+0xf/0x2d7
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff80263ac6>] ? ftrace_record_ip+0x20c/0x263
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff80cc8575>] ? amd756_s4882_init+0x0/0x2d7
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff8020b3a4>] ? mcount_call+0x5/0x31
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff80cc8575>] ? amd756_s4882_init+0x0/0x2d7
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff80cc85b6>] amd756_s4882_init+0x41/0x2d7
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff8024e325>] ? getnstimeofday+0x3f/0xa1
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff8024bf25>] ? ktime_get_ts+0x4e/0x53
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff80cc8575>] ? amd756_s4882_init+0x0/0x2d7
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff80ca49a0>] kernel_init+0x143/0x2a4
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff80863721>] ? _spin_unlock_irq+0x2b/0x37
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff8020c9f9>] child_rip+0xa/0x11
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff80ca485d>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x2a4
[ 19.630000] [<ffffffff8020c9ef>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x11
[ 19.630000]
[ 19.630000] ---[ end trace 0e79313125261797 ]---
[ 19.630000] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
[ 19.630000] IP: [<ffffffff80861c66>] mutex_lock_nested+0x10d/0x267
which occurs with:
http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Thu_Jul_17_11_34_08_CEST_2008.bad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig b/drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig
index 2213fab..ead9209 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ config I2C_AMD756
config I2C_AMD756_S4882
tristate "SMBus multiplexing on the Tyan S4882"
depends on I2C_AMD756 && EXPERIMENTAL
+ # broke an Athlon 64 X2 Asus A8N-E with:
+ # http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Thu_Jul_17_11_34_08_CEST_2008.bad
+ depends on 0
help
Enabling this option will add specific SMBus support for the Tyan
S4882 motherboard. On this 4-CPU board, the SMBus is multiplexed
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-17 9:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-14 20:49 [GIT PULL] i2c updates for 2.6.27, round 1 Jean Delvare
2008-07-14 20:49 ` Jean Delvare
2008-07-16 8:23 ` [crash, bisected] I2C, kobject (ffff81003e8c4160): tried to init an initialized object (was: Re: [GIT PULL] i2c updates for 2.6.27, round 1) Ingo Molnar
2008-07-16 9:07 ` Jean Delvare
2008-07-16 9:07 ` Jean Delvare
2008-07-16 10:08 ` [crash, bisected] I2C, kobject (ffff81003e8c4160): tried to init an initialized object Jean Delvare
2008-07-16 12:18 ` Jean Delvare
2008-07-17 9:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-17 9:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-17 9:48 ` Alexey Dobriyan
[not found] ` <20080717094858.GA18687-QDJVlCTZ4KWTKS93B3g+7KFoa47nwP16@public.gmane.org>
2008-07-17 9:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-17 9:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-06 20:21 ` Jean Delvare
2008-08-06 20:21 ` Jean Delvare
[not found] ` <20080717092655.GA6115-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org>
2008-07-17 9:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-17 9:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-17 9:54 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-07-17 22:42 ` [crash, bisected] I2C, kobject (ffff81003e8c4160): tried to init an initialized object (was: Re: [GIT PULL] i2c updates for 2.6.27, round 1) Greg KH
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