Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | | Subject | Re: modules oops in 2.5.52 | | Date | Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:11:21 +1100 |
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In message <1040260444.1316.4.camel@ixodes.goop.org> you write: > Hi, > > I just had an oops in the modules code: > > Dec 18 16:58:59 ixodes kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virt ual address f8980924 > Dec 18 16:58:59 ixodes kernel: printing eip: > Dec 18 16:58:59 ixodes kernel: f896756d > Dec 18 16:58:59 ixodes kernel: *pde = 01bfc067 > Dec 18 16:58:59 ixodes kernel: *pte = 00000000 > Dec 18 16:58:59 ixodes kernel: Oops: 0000 > Dec 18 16:58:59 ixodes kernel: CPU: 0 > Dec 18 16:58:59 ixodes kernel: EIP: 0060:[<f896756d>] Not tainted > Dec 18 16:58:59 ixodes kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282 > Dec 18 16:58:59 ixodes kernel: EIP is at __exitfn+0xd/0x4c [parport_pc]
Actually, you had an oops in the parport_pc code, in cleanup_module(). Now, *why* that oopsed, I don't know...
> Now, any process which touches /proc/modules hangs, I guess because a > lock was being held.
Yes. Changing this would be particularly interesting, since you don't want a simultaneous "modprobe" to fail.
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