Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:26:15 +0100 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: 2.6.8-rc2 crashes |
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:15:22PM -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 got the bright idea of doing some cmp's on that code module, and > its identical all the way back to 2.6.7-mm1, (I have them all) but > differs at 2.6.7:
Doesn't help - all we know is that at some point in a cyclic list we'd got NULL instead of a pointer to the next list element. Could've happened for any number of reasons.
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