From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765797AbYEAUa3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 16:30:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757027AbYEAUaI (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 16:30:08 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:60139 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756813AbYEAUaG (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 16:30:06 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 13:30:03 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Cc: bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10586] New: High Number of Segfaults onMacBook Starting With 2.6.24.5 Kernel Message-Id: <20080501133003.be723364.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <86A21F45FFA48B408A65E67054362EB6069DD742@CULEBRA.amr.ch2m.com> References: <20080501130444.cc5c63e8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <86A21F45FFA48B408A65E67054362EB6069DD742@CULEBRA.amr.ch2m.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 1 May 2008 14:09:00 -0600 wrote: > Please don't top-post! I fixed it.. > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@linux-foundation.org] > > Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 1:05 PM > > To: Roth, Ryan/RDD > > Cc: bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10586] New: High Number of Segfaults > > onMacBook Starting With 2.6.24.5 Kernel > > > > (switched to email. Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via > > the bugzilla web interface). > > > > On Thu, 1 May 2008 12:30:18 -0700 (PDT) > > bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote: > > > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10586 > > > > > > Summary: High Number of Segfaults on MacBook Starting With > > > 2.6.24.5 Kernel > > > Product: Memory Management > > > Version: 2.5 > > > KernelVersion: 2.6.24.5 > > > Platform: All > > > OS/Version: Linux > > > Tree: Mainline > > > Status: NEW > > > Severity: normal > > > Priority: P1 > > > Component: Other > > > AssignedTo: akpm@osdl.org > > > ReportedBy: ryan.roth@ch2m.com > > > > > > > > > Latest working kernel version: 2.6.23? > > > Earliest failing kernel version: 2.6.24.5 > > > Distribution: Fedora 8 x86_64 > > > Hardware Environment: MacBook > > > Problem Description: Extremely high number of segfaults. Suspect > > > that this may have to do with some sort of change in memory remapping > > > changes in the kernel. > > > > This report is a bit mysterious. I assume you're referring to x86's > > > > "%s%s[%d]: segfault at %lx ip %08lx sp %08lx error %lx" > > > > printk in the kernel logs? > > > > Can you please send some examples of the log output? > > > > Is there actually any observeable problem apart from the logs? Are > > applications dying where they previously did not? > > > > Yes there is a issue with a lot of apps dying, especially the > gnome-power-* apps which means my power management fails to work > frequently. I'm on Git-10 currently and I'm going to patch it up to > date right now because it looks like there have been some memory remap > patches lately. I will update the list after I do so. > OK, worried. This is a huge bug. But afaik you're the only person who has hit it, so there must be something special in your setup which is triggering it. This could be hard.