Re: OOPS running "ls -l /sys/class/i2c-adapter/*"-- 2.6.12-rc1-mm2

Andrew Morton
2005-03-25T07:46:14Z

Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 08:22:15PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 24fc1024
> > > c0198448
> > > *pde = 00000000
> > > Oops: 0000 [#1]
> > > CPU: 0
> > > EIP: 0060:[<c0198448>] Not tainted VLI
> >
> > I wonder why the EIP sometimes doesn't get decoded.
> >
> > > Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
> > > EFLAGS: 00210206 (2.6.12-rc1-mm2)
>
> ksymoops seems to remove lines from the kernel output that it doesn't
> like.

but. but. There used to be a symbol+0xN/0xM in the EIP: line. Are you
saying that ksymoops rubbed that out and stuck a hex number in there?

> I've seen this many times on ARM, and each time I see an oops
> from a 2.6 kernel which has been ksymoopsed, I always ask the submitter
> to send the original non-ksymoopsed version.
>
> Users need to be re-educated _not_ to use ksymoops.

I wonder if there's something clever we could do to the kallsymsised oops
output so that ksymoops would simply cease to recognise it.