From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: John Lumby <johnlumby@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: BUG and system dies if cat /proc/tty/driver/serial while console on ttyS0
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:28:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110615152808.GA9928@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <COL116-W65B54193A5784AAE0E1505A36B0@phx.gbl>
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:08:51AM -0400, John Lumby wrote:
>
> If I direct kernel console output to the serial port ttyS0
> by grub kernel command line like so
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.39-FLG ro root=/dev/sdb3 rootfstype=ext3 selinux=0 console=ttyS0,19200n8r console=tty0
> then console output appears at the other end of the ttyS0 as expected, but then if I log in (on local tty1) and
>
> cat /proc/tty/driver/serial
>
> I get this (on 2.6.39)
>
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1087
> and the system is dead.
This should be resolved in the next 2.6.39.y release, and should also be
fixed in the 3.0-rc3 kernel. Can you verify that?
thanks,
greg k-h
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2011-06-15 15:08 PROBLEM: BUG and system dies if cat /proc/tty/driver/serial while console on ttyS0 John Lumby
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