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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartmann <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: 3.5-rc6 printk formatting problem during oom-kill.
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:02:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120712170242.GA11890@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPXgP134KL_hxnsH4OcwGX-mv6hfaRiH9r7Tn4a5XXYzh6EZqA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 06:47:57PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
 
 > >  > > Also, I have no idea how the hell the 'Modules linked in:' line (9th line) ended up being printed /after/ the
 > >  > > module listing began (2nd line).
 > 
 > They do not belong together. The second line is just another call to
 > the same print_modules() done from:
 >     arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c :: show_regs()
 > 
 > While we already called print_modules() a few cycles earlier from:
 >    kernel/watchdog :: watchdog_timer_fn()

ah, derp. Good spotting.
 
 > Hmm, it does not trigger your pattern. I tried adding an rmmod in that
 > loop, but that crashes after a few seconds. Some modules are just not
 > meant to be removed. :)

yeah, that's bothersome. TTBOMK, we've never survived a 'load all modules/unload all modules' ever.
 
 > I forced the watchdog to trigger by setting the timeout to 1s, but all
 > looks still fine:
 > 
 > Could it possibly be that we get some sort of corruption somewhere
 > else while running trinity and load modules?

I suppose anything is possible, but it's surprisingly consistent.

	Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-12 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-09 18:03 3.5-rc6 printk formatting problem during oom-kill Dave Jones
2012-07-09 18:27 ` Kay Sievers
2012-07-09 18:48   ` Kay Sievers
2012-07-09 20:31     ` Joe Perches
2012-07-09 20:40       ` Greg Kroah-Hartmann
2012-07-09 20:44         ` Joe Perches
2012-07-09 20:48           ` Kay Sievers
2012-07-09 21:08             ` Joe Perches
2012-07-09 20:56           ` Greg Kroah-Hartmann
2012-07-11  0:11             ` Dave Jones
2012-07-11  0:15               ` Greg Kroah-Hartmann
2012-07-12  0:54     ` Dave Jones
2012-07-12 13:52       ` Kay Sievers
2012-07-12 14:05         ` Dave Jones
2012-07-12 16:47           ` Kay Sievers
2012-07-12 17:02             ` Dave Jones [this message]
2012-07-12 17:11           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-12 18:25             ` Kay Sievers
2012-07-12 22:28               ` Kay Sievers

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