From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: linux-2.6.20.4-ck1 / evdev / hub crash Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 23:02:14 -0400 Message-ID: <200704032302.14952.dtor@insightbb.com> References: <3aa654a40703282007xabf2fefi97c04162204ec091@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Unsubscribe: To: linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Cc: Jiri Kosina , Avuton Olrich , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 29 March 2007 04:56, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Avuton Olrich wrote: > > > I've been having problems lately with my mouse, and I know that the > > kernel is tainted. If that's a problem please just ignore this dump. > > I just restarted my computer with a ck[1] kernel, which I had been on > > for a couple of days before this, when X started I noticed that my MX > > Revolution mouse didn't work, so I tried to restart KDM (every now and > > again evdev fails, has problems). When that didn't work I decided to > > remove and reinstall the receiver from the hub, when I did I noticed X > > wouldn't start any more and my dmesg[2] had a dump. Also including a > > copy of my .config[3] (slightly modified for use with a newer kernel). > > This isn't a reoccurring issue, yet, just wanted to report it in case > > it's of any use, thanks. I'm not on the list, please CC me if anything > > is needed. > > 1. > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/pre-releases/2.6.20.4/2.6.20.4-ck1/patch-2.6.20.4-ck1.bz2 > > 2. http://avuton.googlepages.com/evdev_dump > > 3. http://avuton.googlepages.com/config > > Hi, > > I added Dmitry and linux-input mailinglist to CC. This is the second time > I see oops on dereferencing 0x00100100 pointer in evdev_disconnect() > called from input_unregister_device() > - the first one is DVB-T related thing reported a few days ago here - > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/9/212 > Could you please try 2.6.21-rc5-mm4? It has evdev locking patch that I believe should fix these kind of oopses. -- Dmitry