Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [Regression] Crash in load_module() while freeing args | Date | Wed, 26 May 2010 00:54:52 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 25 May 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi, > > Recent -git kernels crash for me quite often during boot, reporting that kernel > paging request could not be satisfied at load_module+0x18e4, which > corresponds to line 2483 of kernel/module.c for the kernel in question (however > the same call trace says IP is at precpu_modfree+0x1 at the moment of the > crash, which seems to point to line 2481 of the same file). It doesn't happen > every time, but it does happen often enough to be annoying and the call > trace is always exactly the same. > > I'm going to revert post-2.6.34 commits that touch kernel/module.c directly > and see what happens.
I'm not able to reproduce the issue with the following commit reverted:
commit 480b02df3aa9f07d1c7df0cd8be7a5ca73893455 Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Date: Wed May 19 17:33:39 2010 -0600
module: drop the lock while waiting for module to complete initialization.
Thanks, Rafael
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