Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings for the week of May 30th 2008

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:

> Veering off at a tangent away from the oops: I was rather sobered to 
> see all those traces of execve using kmap, I thought we were avoiding 
> kmap like BKL in common paths these days (though it is convenient for 
> symlinks).  Would a patch something like that below, copying the 
> filemap.c trick, be welcome?

FYI, i stuck this into -tip for testing and after some time i started 
getting:

[    8.540917] Freeing unused kernel memory: 304k freed
[   12.368096] BUG: scheduling while atomic: ifup-eth/1820/0x10000001
[   12.374144] Modules linked in:
[   12.377175] Pid: 1820, comm: ifup-eth Not tainted 2.6.26-rc5-00029-ga252672-dirty #3490
[   12.384031]  [<c0131a39>] __schedule_bug+0x59/0x60
[   12.388031]  [<c06b1375>] schedule+0x465/0x8c0
[   12.392031]  [<c013eecf>] ? update_process_times+0x4f/0x60
[   12.396031]  [<c013b50f>] ? irq_exit+0x3f/0x70
[   12.400451]  [<c012164b>] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x5b/0x90
[   12.406248]  [<c0117038>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x28/0x30
[   12.411702]  [<c0131a58>] __cond_resched+0x18/0x30
[   12.416466]  [<c06b1838>] _cond_resched+0x28/0x30
[   12.421141]  [<c03720bb>] strnlen_user+0x2b/0x60
[   12.425728]  [<c018dd53>] copy_strings+0x63/0x210
[   12.430403]  [<c018f986>] do_execve+0x176/0x200
[   12.434903]  [<c0372007>] ? strncpy_from_user+0x37/0x60
[   12.440031]  [<c0114ade>] sys_execve+0x2e/0x60
[   12.444447]  [<c01165ae>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6a/0x90
[   12.449469]  =======================
[   12.736676] eth1: link down
[   12.736919] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready

it would occur about every 10 bootups with the same config. Bisection 
led me to your patch.

	Ingo