From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750801AbWGFUPA (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jul 2006 16:15:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750809AbWGFUPA (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jul 2006 16:15:00 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:16270 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750801AbWGFUO7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jul 2006 16:14:59 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 13:11:08 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Alistair John Strachan Cc: john stultz , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.17-mm6 Message-ID: <20060706201108.GA493@kroah.com> References: <20060703030355.420c7155.akpm@osdl.org> <200607052332.13028.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <1152207073.24656.127.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <200607062102.50284.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200607062102.50284.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:02:50PM +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Thursday 06 July 2006 18:31, john stultz wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 23:32 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > > On Wednesday 05 July 2006 21:46, Greg KH wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 01:37:13PM -0700, john stultz wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 01:49 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 09:34:14 +0100 > > > > > > > > > > > > Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > > > > > > > a tested version... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This one worked, thanks. Try the same URL again, I've uploaded > > > > > > > two better shots 6,7 that capture the first oops. Unfortunately, > > > > > > > I have a pair of oopses that interchange every couple of boots, > > > > > > > so I've included both ;-) > > > > > > > > > > > > OK, that's more like it. Thanks again. > > > > > > > > > > > > http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/oops-20060703/oops6.jpg > > > > > > http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/oops-20060703/oops7.jpg > > > > > > > > > > > > People cc'ed. Help! > > > > > > > > > > Hmmm. No clue on this one from just looking at it. > > > > > > > > > > Greg, do you see anything wrong with the way I'm registering the > > > > > timekeeping .resume hook in > > > > > kernel/timer.c::timekeeping_init_device()? It looks the same as the > > > > > other users to me. > > > > > > > > At first glance, no, it looks sane to me. > > > > > > > > Are you sure you aren't registering two things with the same name > > > > somehow? > > > > Looking at it, I don't see how that could happen. > > I don't think it's John's code. I commented out the sysfs registration code > from timekeeping_init_device() and the kernel gets further, where it crashes > on kmem_cache_create. SLAB also complains about "losing its name" and > being "of size 0". > > This happens identically on 2.6.18-rc1, and 2.6.17-mm6. Greg, could it be > anything you've changed recently? I considered bisectioning -mm, but there's > been a lot of RAID problems and I'm using RAID5. Please bisect 2.6.18-rc1 if you have git, as the problem is there, and would be good to track down. thanks, greg k-h