Re: [Fastboot] Re: Kexec on 2.5.59 problems ?

Andy Pfiffer
2003-02-10T16:59:45Z

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 03:14, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> I am using the OSDL versions of the kexec patches for
> 2.5.59 (plm 1442 and 1444) for lkcd-kexec based crash dump
> work.

<snip>

>
> Surprisingly though, when I tried just a simple
> kexec -e today (having loaded the kernel earlier on),
> I ran into the following Oops, consistently:
>
> I'm using kexec-tools-1.8, and this has worked for me
> earlier. The test system is a 4way SMP machine.
>
> Has anyone seen this as well ? (I'd already issued init 1
> and unmounted filesystems by this point)
>
> sh-2.05a# /sbin/kexec -e
> Synchronizing SCSI caches:
> Shutting down devices
> Starting new kernel
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 361ae000
> printing eip:
> c011470a
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0002
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0060:[<c011470a>] Not tainted
> EFLAGS: 00010003
> EIP is at machine_kexec+0x14a/0x190
> eax: 00000097 ebx: f7742260 ecx: 00000025 edx: 361ac000
> esi: c0114750 edi: 361ae000 ebp: f7365e94 esp: f7365e80
> ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
>
> Process kexec (pid: 1685, threadinfo=f7364000 task=f6290060)
> Stack: 361ae000 361ac000 f7742260 f7364000 00000000 f7365fbc
> c0126903 f7742260 c02a71af c03a9aa8 00000001 00000000 f7fe1640
> f7793ec0 c1b3b120 f7364000 00000001 f7365edc c014dbef f7fe1668
> f7fe1668 00000286 f7ff51e0 f7365efc
>
> Call Trace:
> [<c0126903>] sys_reboot+0x363/0x400
> [<c014dbef>] invalidate_inode_buffers+0xf/0x90
> [<c01633b0>] clear_inode+0x10/0xb0
> [<c0238276>] sock_destroy_inode+0x16/0x20
> [<c016149e>] dput+0x1e/0x170 i
> [<c014cb56>] __fput+0x116/0x140 i
> [<c014b38f>] filp_close+0xcf/0xe0 i
> [<c014b43e>] sys_close+0x9e/0xd0 i
> [<c01091c7>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb i
>
> Code: f3 a5 a8 02 74 02 66 a5 a8 01 74 01 a4 e8 84 fe ff ff 6a 00
>
> Regards
> Suparna

Yes, I have seen that exact or similar oops when trying kexec for 2.5.59
on a 2-way Xeon system. The exact same software configuration does
*not* generate that oops on a 1-way P3-800 system.

I've had some difficulty with the serial console on that system, so I
don't yet have an exact traceback and cannot confirm 100% that yours and
mine are identical.

It sure *looks* the same.

Andy