From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754640AbZFFJjz (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jun 2009 05:39:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752777AbZFFJjs (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jun 2009 05:39:48 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f213.google.com ([209.85.220.213]:49509 "EHLO mail-fx0-f213.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752705AbZFFJjr (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jun 2009 05:39:47 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=PnbgjqH2nroq4Pm++/+g+SRkAbA9RtEpWtxUQ/dOMkRMkQlVyRDBdh+b5rfS/2DZ49 IDdVbCv04S21K+nERQlYhOKWcHvS5m5FnPsZuIaoz2dR1eouPTz/Kr9nCUppQChKOg+C 3fXw8Bwd3v0kq6hMfLYUqCzZJk8Rdn/syNstk= Message-ID: <4A2A3961.3030504@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:39:45 +0200 From: Jiri Slaby User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1pre) Gecko/20090528 SUSE/3.0b2-11.2 Thunderbird/3.0b3pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Mitchell CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Panic early in boot References: <9599edfc0906051439s7e006edcrdb68ccde60d51815@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9599edfc0906051439s7e006edcrdb68ccde60d51815@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/05/2009 11:39 PM, Jeff Mitchell wrote: > Output is pasted below. It's hand-typed from a screenshot, so > hopefully I didn't mistype anything. Don't worry to append a link to the screenshot next time ;). > console [earlyvga0] enabled > DMI present. > PANIC: early exception 0e rip 10:ffffffff80866edc error 0 cr2 ffffffffeff44003d > Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 #2 > Call Trace: > early_idt_handler+0x5e/0x71 > dmi_string_nosave+0x34/0x80 > dmi_string_nosave+0x67/0x80 > dmi_string+0xa/0x6e > dmi_save_ident+0x1b/0x2a > dmi_decode+0x72/0x492 > _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x14/0x17 > __early_set_fixmap+0xa0/0xa7 > dmi_table+0x4e/0x78 > dmi_scan_machine+0x132/0x19f > setup_arch+0x34d/0x636 > early_idt_handler+0x0/0x71 > start_kernel+0x86/0x35e > x86_64_start_kernel+0xed/0xf6 > RIP dmi_string_nosave+0x34/0x80 Looks like dmi_string_nosave gets a mess. It tries to dereference 0xffffffffeff44003d. Could you investigate to which save_indent in dmi_decode does the dmi_decode+0x72 correspond to? Is this vanilla, i.e. what does -gentoo-r5 mean? And also append a dmidecode output from a working kernel.