From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: Top 10 kernel oopses for the week ending January 5th, 2008 Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:31:29 -0800 Message-ID: <47804B91.1050709@linux.intel.com> References: <477FF149.4070609@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , NetDev To: Andi Kleen Return-path: Received: from mga07.intel.com ([143.182.124.22]:39282 "EHLO azsmga101.ch.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751502AbYAFDer (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jan 2008 22:34:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Andi Kleen wrote: > Arjan van de Ven 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.