Re: Top 10 kernel oopses for the week ending January 5th, 2008

Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-06T03:34:59Z

Andi Kleen wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> writes:
>> Rank 4: remove_proc_entry
>> Was also ranked 4th last week
>> Only in tainted oopses
>> Reported 3 times (12 total reports)
>> More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/search.php?search=remove_proc_entry
>
> Likely a broken module_exit() function that corrupts the list. To track
> these down it might be useful to keep a list of recently unloaded modules
> and dump these too in the oops module list with a special flag.
>
I suspect that simply printing the currently unloading module will catch 90%+ already;
I'll look into adding this, it's a very good idea.