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Alex Riesen wrote: > Alex Riesen, Mon, May 19, 2003 14:31:19 +0200: > >>>>EIP is at fix_processor_context+0x5f/0x100 >>>>Process kapmd (pid: 4, threadinfo=c5f0e000 task=c5fbc640) >>> >>>After receiving Alex' .config and gcc version (3.2.3), I've been >>>able to decipher this. current->mm is NULL in the kapmd task. The call >>> >>> load_LDT(¤t->mm->context); /* This does lldt */ >>> >>>in fix_processor_context() computes the address of context as >>>(current->mm)+0x7c, which is 0x7c. load_LDT_nolock() dereferences >>>0x7c+0x14 (void *segments = pc->ldt) and the oops follows. >>> >>>As to _why_ kapmd's current->mm is NULL, I don't know. It isn't >>>when I test APM suspend in 2.5.69-bk. A lot of code dereferences >>>current->mm without checking, so I guess current->mm==NULL is a bug. >> >>i just go and try it with the latest -bk. > > no change. Still oopses. Could you try to compile with gcc-3.3? In another thread (2.5.69-mm6: pccard oops) this helped IIRC. I'm suspecting gcc 3.2.3 generates incorrect code for some cases. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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