Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 May 2008 08:59:09 -0700 | From | Phil Oester <> | Subject | Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10586] New: High Number of Segfaults onMacBookStarting With 2.6.24.5 Kernel |
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On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 06:10:18AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Traditionally i386 never printed that message (in fact neither architecture > should - it allows poeple to spam the logs, but it is at least > ratelimited). > > In 2.6.23, i386 _does_ generate that message, in arch/i386/mm/fault.c > > In 2.6.24 the i386 and x86_64 fault handlers were renamed to > arch/x86/mm/fault_[32|64].c and both versions generated the message. > > In 2.6.25 they were unified into a single arch/x86/mm/fault.c, and both > architectures print the message. > > So afacit 2.6.23 _should_ be printing the message if qmail is indeed > generating a segfault. But there's always the possibility that the > message-printing code was simply broken in 2.6.23, and that your qmail has > always been generating segfaults.
That is the most likely scenario. I tried out 2.6.23, and it generates the segfaults also. And we're running a patched qmail-smtpd, so it likely has been segfaulting "forever", but only became noticable in 2.6.23+.
Sorry for the noise.
Phil
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