Re: 2.6.8-rc2 crashes
From: Randy.Dunlap (rddunlap_at_osdl.org)
Date: 07/27/04
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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:32:56 -0700 To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:43:43 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote:
| On Tuesday 27 July 2004 12:51, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
| >On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:02:41 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote:
| >| On Tuesday 27 July 2004 10:29,
| >| viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
| >|
| >| wrote:
| >| >On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:33:04PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
| >| >> Greetings everybody;
| >| >>
| >| >> I have now had 4 crashes while running 2.6.8-rc2, the last one
| >| >> requiring a full powerdown before the intel-8x0 could
| >| >> re-establish control over the sound.
| >| >>
| >| >> All have had an initial Opps located in prune_dcache, and were
| >| >> logged as follows:
| >| >> Jul 27 07:58:58 coyote kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL
| >| >> pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
| >| >
| >| >... which means that dentry_unused list got corrupted, which
| >| > doesn't really help. Could you try to narrow it down to
| >| > 2.6.8-rc1-bk<day>?
| >|
| >| I don't have bitkeeper installed. I get my patches from
| >| kernel.org, either from the main Linus tree, or Andrews akpm tree.
| >| Is there someplace where I can dl a patchkit that leads up to rc1
| >| by the "daily" snapshot? Or should I just get the 'broken out'
| >| patch after I verify that it also occurs with rc1 of course. That
| >| I haven't done, mainly because rc2 has a lot of usb bugfixes and
| >| my mouse hasn't died all by itself on rc2 like it was for at least
| >| 2 dozen patches before rc2. IIRC it did a time or 2 on rc1.
| >
| >In case you need daily bk snapshots, they are here:
| > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/
|
| Thanks Randy, got all 6 of them.
|
| >| It takes a < 1 day for this to occur usually, but seems to occur
| >| after a long session of doing something else that fails. (or maybe
| >| causes the fail, of a make install in konstruct/meta/kde) Thats
| >| running now, someplace in kdegraphics-3.2.92 from the looks of it.
|
| I take it that I should apply these to a 2.6.7 tarballs tree in this
| order:
| 1. 2.6.8-rc1
>>>> 2.6.8-rc2 <<<<<
| 2. each of these 'rc2-bk' patches by the day and then run each for a
| couple days, or should I start in the middle, say the 3rd one and
| work forward or backwards from there depending on the results?
I'd suggest beginning with -bk3 and doing a binary search.
| Your (and Viro's) call. I'd imagine you would want to run this to
| earth as quick as we can.
|
| Are these patches cumulative? I presume they are as they grow by the
| day.
Sorry, I should have mentioned that. Yes, they are cumulative.
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