From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: Oops on 2.4.x invalid procfs i_ino value
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:47:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041218004703.GE771@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041218003835.GD771@holomorphy.com>
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 04:49:44PM -0600, Brent Casavant wrote:
>> On a related note, if it matters, on about half the crash dumps I've
>> looked at, I see a pid of 0 has been assigned to a user process,
>> tripping this same problem. I suspect there's another bug somewhere
>> that's allowing a pid of 0 to be chosen in the first place -- but I
>> don't totally discount that this problem may lay in SGI's patches to
>> this particular kernel -- I'll need to take a more thorough look.
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 04:38:35PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> That's rather ominous. I'll pore over pid.c and see what's going on.
> Also, does the pid.c in your kernel version match 2.6.x-CURRENT?
Ouch, 2.4.21; this will be trouble. So next, what patches atop 2.4.21?
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-18 0:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-17 22:49 Oops on 2.4.x invalid procfs i_ino value Brent Casavant
2004-12-18 0:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-18 0:47 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-12-20 22:35 ` Brent Casavant
2004-12-22 15:46 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-12-27 19:04 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-12-27 21:40 ` William Lee Irwin III
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