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SubjectRe: 2.6.33 GP fault only when built with tracing
On 03/18/10 16:55, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 16:26 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> I can build/boot 2.6.33 with CONFIG_TRACE/TRACING disabled successfully,
>> but when I enable lots of tracing config options and then boot with
>> ftrace=nop on the kernel command line, I see a GP fault when the parport &
>> parport_pc modules are loading/initializing.
>
> Do you see it without adding the "ftrace=nop"? The only thing that
> should do is expand the ring buffer on boot up.

Yes, it happens with or without "ftrace=nop" as a kernel boot argument.


>>
>> It happens in drivers/parport/share.c::parport_register_device(), when that
>> function calls try_module_get().
>>
>> If I comment out the trace_module_get() calls in include/linux/module.h,
>> the kernel boots with no problems.
>
>
> Interesting. Well, trace_module_get() is a TRACE_EVENT tracepoint. But
> should be disabled here. It may be something to do with DEFINE_TRACE.
>
> (added Mathieu to Cc since he wrote that code)


--
~Randy


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