Re: problems with 7.0 kernel page faults

From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:25:02 +0300
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 07:18:25PM +0100, Chris wrote:
> Submitted 2 PRs for 7.0 we only been using it for a few hours and have
> had repeated kernel page faults crashing the system so was
> dissapointed considering this is said to be nearly ready for release.
> 
> PRs are
> 
> 116719 and 116720 in misc.
> 
> First one was caused by simply running reboot, I recompiled world with
> -O which seems to prevent this occuring.
> 
> Second one is when running 'killall watch' with at least 1 watch
> process running this causes the kernel to page fault and this happens
> even when compiled with -O.
> 
> If anyone is interested can post logs dmesg etc. and have a kernel
> dump for the 2nd problem.
First one will never be diagnosed since you provided no useful information.

I am interested in second one. Please, send the "bt full" backtrace from
the coredump. I tried to reproduce it locally with snoopper attached to
both ttyv and pseudoterminal, but cannot.

When reporting the kernel problems, following guidelines in the developer
handbook would facilitate faster responses.

Received on Fri Sep 28 2007 - 17:25:10 UTC

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