From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422804AbWJaICZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:02:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422913AbWJaICZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:02:25 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:12485 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422804AbWJaICX (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:02:23 -0500 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:01:32 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Andrew Morton Cc: andrew.j.wade@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , Kay Sievers Subject: Re: [2.6.19-rc3-mm1] BUG at arch/i386/mm/pageattr.c:165 Message-ID: <20061031080132.GA9155@kroah.com> References: <20061029160002.29bb2ea1.akpm@osdl.org> <200610302203.37570.ajwade@cpe001346162bf9-cm0011ae8cd564.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com> <20061030191340.1c7f8620.akpm@osdl.org> <200610302258.31613.ajwade@cpe001346162bf9-cm0011ae8cd564.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com> <20061030211046.1c3d62b9.akpm@osdl.org> <20061031070351.GB14713@kroah.com> <20061030233432.d75955c5.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061030233432.d75955c5.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 11:34:32PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:03:51 -0800 > Greg KH wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:10:46PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:58:11 -0500 > > > Andrew James Wade wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > hm. Please send the .config > > > > > > > > > Sure. > > > > > > > > I've just found out that unsetting CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED makes the > > > > crash go away. I can hack around the resulting udev incompatibility. > > > > > > > > # > > > > # Automatically generated make config: don't edit > > > > # Linux kernel version: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 > > > > # Mon Oct 30 19:31:03 2006 > > > > > > Well I tried to reproduce this, but I got such a psychedelic cornucopia of > > > oopses at various bisection points amongst those sysfs patches that I think > > > I'll just give up. > > > > > > Greg, Kay: it's quite ugly. I'll drop all those patches for now, and I > > > suggest you do so too. Have a play with the .config which Andrew sent.. > > > > No, please don't drop them. We have tested these out on a lot of > > different boxes. So far everyone's problems have either been due to > > something else in -mm (acpi patches), or because they did not read the > > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED Kconfig help text. > > Does acpi cause the change_page_attr oopses? > > What caused the several different oopses which I got with Andrew's config? > They were all inside the gregkh-driver-* series. (That test machine is > running FC1, which doesn't run udev at all. Its BIOS is acpi-free). > > Here's one: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/s5000364.jpg That function (snd_register_device_for_dev), isn't even in 2.6.19-rc3, so I don't see how any of my changes could have affected it :) > I didn't grab the others. > > > I have yet to see any real problems with these patches, except for your > > build issue with the bonding drivers, which I'm fixing up right now. > > Tried Andrew's .config? I will do so in the morning... time for sleep, greg k-h