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* 2.6.{26.2,27-rc} oops on virtualbox
@ 2008-08-20 19:29 Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
  2008-08-21 21:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 52+ messages in thread
From: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino @ 2008-08-20 19:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: mathieu.desnoyers, mingo


 Hi there,

 Users of different Linux distros (includes Ubuntu, Mandriva, ArchLinux and
possibly Fedora) are reporting that kernel 2.6.26.2 is OOPSing in the
Virtual Box emulator[1].

 It is not clear if this is a kernel or Virtual Box bug, but as the kernel
is also OOPsing in QEMU (although with different behaivor) I have decided
to post my debug results here in case someone is interested in debugging
the kernel part further.

 I have done a bisection by hand among kernel versions and found that
the commit which triggers the oops in _Virtual Box_ was introduced in
2.6.26-rc1 and the problem also happens with latest Linus tree.

 By using git bisect I found that the commit is this:

"""
commit e587cadd8f47e202a30712e2906a65a0606d5865
Author: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Date:   Thu Mar 6 08:48:49 2008 -0500

    x86: enhance DEBUG_RODATA support - alternatives

[...]

"""

 By reverting this commit I don't get the OOPS anymore. I have
tested with 2.6.26-rc1 and latest Linus tree (2.6.27-rc3).

 What puzzles me though is that a similar problem happens with
QEMU, but it also OOPSes with kernels before 2.6.26-rc1,
reverting the patch above makes no difference and it works with
current Linus tree.

 Does this look like a kernel bug?

 All my tests have been done with vanilla kernels, but I have
built .iso installation images with them and I'm not sure of
what the build script does.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_box

 Thanks for reading this.

-- 
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino

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2008-08-20 19:29 2.6.{26.2,27-rc} oops on virtualbox Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-08-21 21:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-22  6:42   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-22  6:50     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-22 14:39       ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-08-22 15:34         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-22 16:29           ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-08-22 16:35             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-22 17:20               ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-08-22 18:11                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-22 19:40                   ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-08-22 20:31                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-22 20:55                       ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-08-22 20:57                 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-08-22 21:08                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-26 14:18                     ` Gerhard Brauer
2008-08-26 14:53                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-26 16:09                         ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-08-26 16:13                         ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-08-26 17:18                           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-26 17:32                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-26 18:02                             ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-08-26 18:15                               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-26 19:52                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-26 20:34                                 ` Gerhard Brauer
2008-08-26 20:48                                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-26 21:25                                     ` Gerhard Brauer
2008-08-26 21:35                                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-26 21:51                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-27  0:13                                         ` Gerhard Brauer
2008-08-27 19:13                                   ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-08-27 23:33                                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-28 13:30                                       ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-08-31  9:29                                         ` Gerhard Brauer
2008-08-31 13:28                                           ` Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
2008-08-31 14:03                                             ` Gerhard Brauer
2008-08-31 14:09                                           ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-09-21 13:41                                             ` Gerhard Brauer
2008-09-22  9:51                                               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-24 13:24                                               ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-08-28 13:50                                       ` Gerhard Brauer
2008-08-26 19:27                         ` Gerhard Brauer
2008-08-26 16:02                       ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-08-26 16:40                         ` Gerhard Brauer
2008-08-22 17:16             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-22 17:45               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-22 17:57                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-22 19:10               ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-08-22 19:14                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-22 19:18                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-22 19:42                   ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-08-22 14:28   ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino

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