Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:13:47 +0200 | From | Dan Carpenter <> | Subject | Re: ath5k misbehaving affecting other kernel parts unrelated? |
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On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:27:00AM +0100, Pedro Francisco wrote: > A Sexta, 23 de Abril de 2010 20:13:42 Dan Carpenter escreveu: > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 08:06:13AM +0100, Pedro Francisco wrote: > -snip > > > > > > Is it possible a faulty ath5k module to affect diverse parts of kernel > > > causing different oopses to happen referencing things as different as > > > cdrom_ioctl, find_vma, i915_gem_object_get_pages, > > > get_vfs_caps_from_disk, > > > warn_slowpath_common (ath5k_tasklet_rx), proc_lookup_de and > > > _spin_lock(ext4_getattr) [soft lookup]? > > > -snip > > > > If you know a working version of the kernel try a git bisect otherwise > > just post your dmesg with the crash etc. > > > > I don't. I doubt the dmesg will be of significance, as I said they're never the > same. > However I've posted the dmesgs here [ > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1457568 ] prior to asking for help in > LKML. Kernel version is Ubuntu's 2.6.32, not Vanilla. > > I believe nothing significant can be extracted from them. Am I correct? >
Well they have the 'M' taint for "Machine Check Exception" so that probably means the hardware is failing.
regards, dan carpenter
> -- > Pedro
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