From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:55:02 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:51426 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20029011AbXJFXzA (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2007 00:55:00 +0100 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l96NsuZN014533; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 00:54:56 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l96NstDD014532; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 00:54:55 +0100 Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 00:54:55 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Giuseppe Sacco Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: kernel bug using 2.6.23-rc9 Message-ID: <20071006235455.GA14319@linux-mips.org> References: <1191502153.10050.15.camel@scarafaggio> <20071005122543.GB22239@linux-mips.org> <20071006090809.bb738bab.giuseppe@eppesuigoccas.homedns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071006090809.bb738bab.giuseppe@eppesuigoccas.homedns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 16879 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 09:08:09AM +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > I may reproduce it without problems. The failing command is "ps aux". Once the command starts, the kernel log the bug and the command stay blocked: no shell prompt, no control-c working. Since the ps command does not work, I cannot check the prosess status :-) ps does a few very specific things in the memory managment. So that's probably already all the information I need to deal with this one, thanks! Ralf