Re: EIP Errors kernel 2.6.18 .AND hard lockup ...

[Ben Duncan <ben@versaccounting.com>]

Ok, I can remove the module so it no longer is loaded ..

It is replicate able, but randomly. Seems to occur when I hammer on
the SATA drive in the system, which is running on a add-on SIL 3112a
controller card.

Anyway, driver is removed, system rebooted, ksyms logged.
I will hammer again on the system to see if it fails ...

Thanks  ...

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 
> 
>>desktop kernel: EIP:    0060:[<c01ba714>]    Tainted: P      VLI
> 
>                              proprietary module loaded--^
> 
> 
>>To me seems to be a PDFLUSH eip and the nvidia stuff is just
>>a by product of loaded modules, no?
> 
> 
> The point is that we can't know that the NVidia module hasn't stomped on
> some random memory location that happened to corrupt a radix tree.  Note
> that this is true even if you've loaded and then unloaded the module - it
> may have splatted something before it departed....
> 
> Is it a replicatable error, and if so, can you replicate it without loading
> the NVidia module?  If you can come up with a traceback that doesn't have
> an NVidia tainting in it, we'll be glad to look at it.  Conversely, if you're
> able to replicate it with nvidia loaded, but not without, toss it over
> the fence to your friend.

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