Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.10-mm1 panic in sysfs ? | From | Badari Pulavarty <> | Date | 05 Jan 2005 16:39:34 -0800 |
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On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 16:52, Andrew Morton wrote: > Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > I get a panic in sysfs_readdir() while booting 2.6.10-mm1 > > kernel. Known fixes ? > > > > It's news to me. > > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000020 > > printing eip: > > c109c8ef > > *pde = 0191c001 > > Oops: 0000 [#1] > > SMP > > Modules linked in: > > CPU: 2 > > EIP: 0060:[<c109c8ef>] Not tainted VLI > > EFLAGS: 00010282 (2.6.10-mm1kexec) > > What is "2.6.10mm1kexec"?
I enabled kexec in the kernel, so added "kexec" in the EXTRA VERSION.
> > > EIP is at sysfs_readdir+0xef/0x280 > > eax: 00000000 ebx: c15e1160 ecx: 0000000c edx: 00000020 > > esi: c15e1164 edi: c15dd72d ebp: c1a7df78 esp: c1a7df3c > > ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 > > Process getcfg (pid: 1927, threadinfo=c1a7c000 task=c2ba3040) > > Try to work out what arguments are being passed to `getcfg', then run it by > hand, under strace, to see what /sysfs file is being accessed when it oopses.
Sure. will do and let you know.
Thanks, Badari
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