Re: Oops while modprobing phy fixed module

[Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>]

Gabriel C wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>   
>> Satyam Sharma wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> On 7/16/07, Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> Here the bisect result:
>>>>
>>>> 3007e997de91ec59af39a3f9c91595b31ae6e08b is first bad commit
>>>> commit 3007e997de91ec59af39a3f9c91595b31ae6e08b
>>>> Author: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
>>>> Date:   Thu Jun 14 04:27:23 2007 +0900
>>>>
>>>>     sysfs: use sysfs_mutex to protect the sysfs_dirent tree
>>>>       
>>>>         
>> Hmmm... Weird.  The patch is supposed to make synchronization more
>> strict not less unless I've forgotten locking at some place.  Gabriel,
>> can you please choose SLAB and enable CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB and
>> DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK and see whether kernel complains about something?
>>   
>>     
>
> Sure , give me some minutes.
>   

With DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK set ( and a lot other DEBUG options ) I get on
current HEAD
( abce891a10559343d8ac9f79b46d78afdba63a40 ) an Oops too now , just the
box isn't died.

Config and dmesg can be found there :

http://194.231.229.228/2.6.22-gabce891a/

Here it is :

[  199.766878] Fixed PHY: Registered new driver
[  199.768069] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b87
[  199.768081]  printing eip:
[  199.768085] c01a0796
[  199.768089] *pde = 00000000
[  199.768098] Oops: 0000 [#1]
[  199.768102] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[  199.768111] Modules linked in: fixed pc87360 hwmon_vid i2c_isa eeprom adm1021 uhci_hcd sr_mod shpchp pci_hotplug ohci_hcd iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support intel_agp i82860_edac i2c_i801 ehci_hcd usbcore edac_mc cdrom agpgart 3c59x mii ext4dev jbd2 capability commoncap loop lp parport_pc parport
[  199.768182] CPU:    1
[  199.768184] EIP:    0060:[<c01a0796>]    Not tainted VLI
[  199.768188] EFLAGS: 00210202   (2.6.22-gabce891a #27)
[  199.768205] EIP is at __sysfs_remove_dir+0x20/0x64
[  199.768213] eax: 00000000   ebx: de583e04   ecx: e5113728   edx: 6b6b6b6b
[  199.768222] esi: e5113738   edi: e5113728   ebp: de583e20   esp: de583e04
[  199.768230] ds: 007b   es: 007b   fs: 00d8  gs: 0033  ss: 0068
[  199.768238] Process modprobe (pid: 2067, ti=de582000 task=d79174c0 task.ti=de582000)
[  199.768246] Stack: e5113728 00000000 00000000 00000000 d96bcce0 e5113728 00000000 de583e30 
[  199.768271]        c01a0810 d96bcce0 d96bcbf8 de583e3c c01db3eb d96bcce0 de583e50 c023e338 
[  199.768298]        d96bcbf8 d96bcbf8 e0b3eef0 de583e5c c023e365 d96bcbf0 de583e9c e8c472e8 
[  199.768327] Call Trace:
[  199.768333]  [<c0104f86>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
[  199.768348]  [<c0105036>] show_stack_log_lvl+0x9b/0xa3
[  199.768359]  [<c010520c>] show_registers+0x1ce/0x2de
[  199.768370]  [<c010543b>] die+0x11f/0x1f8
[  199.768380]  [<c01137a9>] do_page_fault+0x438/0x507
[  199.768392]  [<c031893a>] error_code+0x72/0x78
[  199.768405]  [<c01a0810>] sysfs_remove_dir+0x2c/0x30
[  199.768415]  [<c01db3eb>] kobject_del+0xf/0x19
[  199.768429]  [<c023e338>] device_del+0x228/0x24a
[  199.768442]  [<c023e365>] device_unregister+0xb/0x15
[  199.768452]  [<e8c472e8>] fixed_mdio_register_device+0x1dc/0x208 [fixed]
[  199.768467]  [<e8c4a01e>] fixed_init+0x1e/0x33 [fixed]
[  199.768479]  [<c013d290>] sys_init_module+0x1589/0x1677
[  199.768493]  [<c0103f16>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x99
[  199.768503]  =======================
[  199.768508] Code: e7 fd ff ff 83 c4 10 5b 5e 5d c3 55 89 e5 57 56 53 83 ec 10 89 c7 85 c0 74 4d 8d 5d e4 89 c2 89 d8 e8 1f fb ff ff 8d 77 10 eb 27 <8b> 42 1c 25 ff 00 00 00 74 1a 83 f8 02 74 15 8b 42 0c 89 06 c7 
[  199.768675] EIP: [<c01a0796>] __sysfs_remove_dir+0x20/0x64 SS:ESP 0068:de583e04



Gabriel