From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933619AbYEBAQT (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 20:16:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757260AbYEBAQH (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 20:16:07 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:50342 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757177AbYEBAQE (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 20:16:04 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 17:15:20 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Ryan Roth Cc: randy.dunlap@oracle.com, Ryan.Roth@CH2M.com, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10586] New: High Number of Segfaults onMacBookStarting With 2.6.24.5 Kernel Message-Id: <20080501171520.38e2a478.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <481A58A2.7070807@sbcglobal.net> References: <20080501130444.cc5c63e8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <86A21F45FFA48B408A65E67054362EB6069DD742@CULEBRA.amr.ch2m.com> <20080501133003.be723364.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <86A21F45FFA48B408A65E67054362EB621C948@CULEBRA.amr.ch2m.com> <481A5276.4040607@sbcglobal.net> <20080501164856.f93ff909.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <481A58A2.7070807@sbcglobal.net> 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, 01 May 2008 16:56:18 -0700 Ryan Roth wrote: > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: proc_dir_entry 'info' already registered > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: Pid: 1099, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.25-git16 #3 > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: Call Trace: > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: [] idr_get_new+0xb/0x28 > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: [] proc_register+0xcb/0x14b > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: [] proc_register+0xfe/0x14b > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: [] proc_create_data+0x84/0x9e > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: [] > > :video:acpi_video_bus_add+0x98f/0xc6d > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: [] acpi_device_probe+0x43/0x91 > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: [] driver_probe_device+0xd0/0x14d > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: [] __driver_attach+0x46/0x6d > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: [] __driver_attach+0x0/0x6d > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: [] bus_for_each_dev+0x44/0x6f > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: [] bus_add_driver+0xb2/0x1ff > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: [] driver_register+0x59/0xcd > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: [] :video:acpi_video_init+0x3c/0x5e > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: [] sys_init_module+0x171a/0x1896 > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: [] acpi_bus_register_driver+0x0/0x3e > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: [] vfs_read+0xa6/0xfe > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: [] > > system_call_after_swapgs+0x7b/0x80 That's an acpi video problem - it won't be the cause of this regression. I'll forward it separately. > > --- > > ~Randy > > > > > The segfaults are still present causing apps to not work. I attached a > boot log in case it was needed for more details. Should I not worry > about the following message? > > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: PCI: MCFG configuration 0: base f0000000 segment > 0 buses 0 - 255 > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f0000000 is not > reserved in ACPI motherboard resources > May 1 16:15:01 kernel: PCI: Not using MMCONFIG. Again, the mmconfig warnings will be unrelated to this bug.