From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rcX in pretty bad shape on parisc
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:47:05 +0100
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To: Thibaut VARENE <T-Bone@parisc-linux.org>
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Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>> Here ist just one of the latest crashes (c3k, UP, CONFIG_SMP not set,
>> 2.6.28-rc5):
>> .....
>> SuperIO: ACPI at 0x7e0
>> SuperIO: USB regulator enabled
>> PDC Stable Storage facility v0.30
>> Backtrace:
>>  [<1018b6a4>] __kmalloc+0xa4/0xec
>>  [<101718f4>] kstrdup+0x38/0x6c
>>  [<101d9090>] sysfs_new_dirent+0x54/0xf4
>>  [<101da0dc>] sysfs_do_create_link+0xcc/0x19c
>>  [<106cd644>] pdc_stable_init+0x1cc/0x2b4
> 
> Wild guess since my baby's into this mess: somebody fucked
> up^W^Wmodified some code in sysfs and didn't care enough about the
> consequences.

I'm not sure it's sysfs either.
This crash happens in sysfs, but other in memory, locking, ...
It's just random where and when it crashes.

Helge