Re: potentially nasty oops on startup

[Thomas Ronner <thomas@cs.uu.nl>]

Hello,

 >On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Rik van Riel wrote:
 >
 > > I"m getting the following oops on startup, and I"m not quite
 > > sure why.  It looks nasty though, with an invalid page being
 > > mapped into a process, and a strange looking EIP ...
 > >
 > > do_wp_page: bogus page at address 00000449
 > > VM: killing process kmodule
 > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 
 > > 00000449

 > OK, figured it out.  It"s kmodule, mmaping /dev/mem and
 > making vm86 calls.  Select fragments from a strace:
(...)

I'm having the same problem on Xen 2.0.3 using the stock XenLinux 2.6.10 
kernel. This didn't happen with Xen 2.0.1 and XenLinux 2.6.9. Is there a 
fix available? in -testing perhaps? The distribution in domain 0 is FC3.


Greetings, Thomas

-- 
Thomas Ronner
Computer Systems Group
Institute of Information & Computing Sciences, Utrecht University
E: thomas@cs.uu.nl  T: 030 2539296



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