From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 Oops: Machine check, sig: 7 [#1]
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:42:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1187854930.5972.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070822090858.b8f62539.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>
> It would be great if you could fix that wordwrapping problem.
>
> Dunno, it beats me. powerpc booted OK for me. Ben, have you been playing
> around in powerpc mmap code? How come the oops claims it died at
> kernel_execve+0x8/0x14 but the call trace points up into the vma management
> code?
I haven't changed anything that would cause such a symptom in the VMA
code... The machine check looks to me like we are accessing a stale
pointer that happens to correspond to some part of IO space that is
mapped but not responding (like PCI PIO space).
I'm travelling (and quite sick too) right now, so I can't really do much
about it at this stage. But it happens early enough that putting a
printk in vma_link_rb() to printk the various pointers involved before
dereferencing them might help.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-23 7:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-22 13:22 [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 Oops: Machine check, sig: 7 [#1] Kamalesh Babulal
2007-08-22 16:08 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-22 17:50 ` Kamalesh Babulal
2007-08-23 7:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-08-23 23:41 ` Paul Mackerras
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