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Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 04:50:01 +0100 From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, 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 On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 07:31:29PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > 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; There are a few cases where the corruption is only visible next time someone accesses the list. So a small ring buffer might make sense. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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