Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Aug 2008 13:19:44 -0700 | From | "Justin Mattock" <> | Subject | Re: BUG: cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_driver |
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On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 07:59:31AM -0700, Justin Mattock wrote: >> I noticed a thread about: >> cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_driver >> so I decided to see if this happens to me as well. >> sure enough the first try gave me no response the >> second try gave me a segfault <below is in dmesg> >> >> [ 292.680190] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 72890e19 >> [ 292.680201] IP: [<c02ebd1f>] show_current_driver+0x5/0x4c >> [ 292.680215] *pde = 00000000 >> [ 292.680221] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP >> [ 292.680229] Modules linked in: hci_usb cpufreq_ondemand >> cpufreq_performance cpufreq_powersave rfcomm hidp l2cap bluetooth fan >> battery ipmi_watchdog ipmi_msghandler uvcvideo uinput wlan_tkip >> ieee80211_crypt_tkip ieee80211 ieee80211_crypt arpt_mangle >> arptable_filter arp_tables nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_conntrack >> iptable_mangle iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables coretemp eeprom >> acpi_cpufreq applesmc wlan_scan_sta ath_rate_sample firewire_ohci >> firewire_core joydev isight_firmware snd_hda_intel ath_pci wlan >> fglrx(P) ohci1394 appletouch snd_pcm ieee1394 ath_hal(P) video ac >> snd_timer ehci_hcd pata_acpi thermal agpgart evdev uhci_hcd >> snd_page_alloc snd_hwdep processor sbshc button >> [ 292.680335] >> [ 292.680341] Pid: 3645, comm: cat Tainted: P >> (2.6.27-rc1-00156-g94ad374 #5) >> [ 292.680346] EIP: 0060:[<c02ebd1f>] EFLAGS: 00210282 CPU: 0 >> [ 292.680353] EIP is at show_current_driver+0x5/0x4c >> [ 292.680358] EAX: f44ae7f4 EBX: c01a982c ECX: 0804e000 EDX: 00001000 >> [ 292.680362] ESI: f44ae7e0 EDI: c04e0728 EBP: c04e0728 ESP: f1ecff64 >> [ 292.680367] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 >> [ 292.680372] Process cat (pid: 3645, ti=f1ece000 task=f1edc4e0 >> task.ti=f1ece000) >> [ 292.680377] Stack: c04e0a90 f1e0fd00 0804e000 c01a97a1 f1ecff90 >> c0175721 f1ecff9c 00001000 >> [ 292.680392] f1e0fd00 fffffff7 0804e000 f1ecffb0 c0175a14 >> f1ecff9c 00000000 00000000 >> [ 292.680406] 00000000 00000003 00001000 f1ece000 c0102f9a >> 00000003 0804e000 00001000 >> [ 292.680421] Call Trace: >> [ 292.680425] [<c01a97a1>] ? sysfs_read_file+0x0/0xe8 >> [ 292.680436] [<c0175721>] ? vfs_read+0x8a/0x106 >> [ 292.680444] [<c0175a14>] ? sys_read+0x3b/0x60 >> [ 292.680452] [<c0102f9a>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb >> [ 292.680461] ======================= >> [ 292.680464] Code: c3 58 5a b8 e0 7a 4e c0 e8 a5 ee 0a 00 89 d8 8b >> 5d fc c9 c3 55 83 c0 30 89 e5 ba 4c 7b 4e c0 e8 3e f4 eb ff 5d c3 61 >> 63 70 69 5f <69> 64 6c 65 0a 00 e8 e1 ff 0a 00 a1 e0 4c 5e c0 85 c0 74 >> 13 50 >> [ 292.680548] EIP: [<c02ebd1f>] show_current_driver+0x5/0x4c SS:ESP >> 0068:f1ecff64 >> [ 292.680559] ---[ end trace d308d2db96f6b752 ]--- >> >> the kernel is tainted(even though I'm trying to have an >> untainted kernel). i.g. video driver > > Thanks for the report. Could you please try this patch posted in the > original thread? > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/5/314 > > Rabin >
Sure, I'll give that patch a try. just to let you know, it my take some time, (doing some external activities). I'll let you know. regards;
-- Justin P. Mattock
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