linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 (end earlier): WARNING at lib/kobject.c:172 kobject

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Message-Id: <20061122134406.f3a30fc4.akpm@osdl.org>
Date:	Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:44:06 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 (end earlier): WARNING at lib/kobject.c:172
 kobject_init() on resume from disk

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:07:06 +0100
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I get similar traces on every resume from disk on SMP systems:
> 
> WARNING at lib/kobject.c:172 kobject_init()
> 
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff80265559>] dump_trace+0xaa/0x3fd
>  [<ffffffff802658e8>] show_trace+0x3c/0x52
>  [<ffffffff80265913>] dump_stack+0x15/0x17
>  [<ffffffff8031c1ad>] kobject_init+0x3f/0x8a
>  [<ffffffff8031c298>] kobject_register+0x1a/0x3e
>  [<ffffffff8038e5b4>] sysdev_register+0x5f/0xec
>  [<ffffffff8026af39>] mce_create_device+0x79/0x103
>  [<ffffffff8026afed>] mce_cpu_callback+0x2a/0xbd
>  [<ffffffff8026112f>] notifier_call_chain+0x29/0x3e
>  [<ffffffff8028e809>] raw_notifier_call_chain+0x9/0xb
>  [<ffffffff80299f18>] _cpu_up+0xc2/0xd5
>  [<ffffffff80299f56>] cpu_up+0x2b/0x42
>  [<ffffffff80299fbb>] enable_nonboot_cpus+0x4e/0x9b
>  [<ffffffff802a35da>] snapshot_ioctl+0x1a0/0x5d2
>  [<ffffffff8023d9cd>] do_ioctl+0x5e/0x77
>  [<ffffffff8022d785>] vfs_ioctl+0x256/0x273
>  [<ffffffff8024770b>] sys_ioctl+0x5f/0x82
>  [<ffffffff8025811e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83
> DWARF2 unwinder stuck at system_call+0x7e/0x83
> Leftover inexact backtrace:
> 
> False positive?
> 

Don't know.  The changelog in
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-01-driver/kobject-warn.patch
is pretty pathetic.

Perhaps mce_remove_device() isn't being called.

<wonders why mce_remove_device() isn't __cpuinit too>  
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