netdev - Re: Top 10 kernel oopses for the week ending January 5th, 2008

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Date:	Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:31:29 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Top 10 kernel oopses for the week ending January 5th, 2008

Andi Kleen wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com> writes:
>> Rank 4: remove_proc_entry
>> 	Was also ranked 4th last week
>> 	Only in tainted oopses
>> 	Reported 3 times (12 total reports)
>> 	More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/search.php?search=remove_proc_entry
> 
> Likely a broken module_exit() function that corrupts the list. To track
> these down it might be useful to keep a list of recently unloaded modules
> and dump these too in the oops module list with a special flag.
> 
I suspect that simply printing the currently unloading module will catch 90%+ already;
I'll look into adding this, it's a very good idea.
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