linux-kernel - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10586] New: High Number of Segfaults onMacBookStarting With 2.6.24.5 Kernel

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Message-ID: <481A5276.4040607@sbcglobal.net>
Date:	Thu, 01 May 2008 16:29:58 -0700
From:	Ryan Roth <ryanroth@...global.net>
To:	Ryan.Roth@...M.com
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10586] New: High Number of Segfaults onMacBookStarting
 With 2.6.24.5 Kernel


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@...ux-foundation.org]
> Sent: Thu 5/1/2008 1:30 PM
> To: Roth, Ryan/RDD
> Cc: bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10586] New: High Number of Segfaults 
> onMacBookStarting With 2.6.24.5 Kernel
>
> On Thu, 1 May 2008 14:09:00 -0600
> <Ryan.Roth@...M.com> wrote:
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@...ux-foundation.org]
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 1:05 PM
> > > To: Roth, Ryan/RDD
> > > Cc: bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10586] New: High Number of Segfaults
> > > onMacBook Starting With 2.6.24.5 Kernel
> > >
> > > (switched to email.  Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via
> > > the bugzilla web interface).
> > >
> > > On Thu,  1 May 2008 12:30:18 -0700 (PDT)
> > > bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org wrote:
> > >
> > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10586
> > > >
> > > >            Summary: High Number of Segfaults on MacBook Starting 
> With
> > > >                     2.6.24.5 Kernel
> > > >            Product: Memory Management
> > > >            Version: 2.5
> > > >      KernelVersion: 2.6.24.5
> > > >           Platform: All
> > > >         OS/Version: Linux
> > > >               Tree: Mainline
> > > >             Status: NEW
> > > >           Severity: normal
> > > >           Priority: P1
> > > >          Component: Other
> > > >         AssignedTo: akpm@...l.org
> > > >         ReportedBy: ryan.roth@...m.com
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Latest working kernel version:  2.6.23?
> > > > Earliest failing kernel version:  2.6.24.5
> > > > Distribution: Fedora 8 x86_64
> > > > Hardware Environment:  MacBook
> > > > Problem Description:  Extremely high number of segfaults.  Suspect
> > > > that this may have to do with some sort of change in memory 
> remapping
> > > > changes in the kernel.
> > >
> > > This report is a bit mysterious.  I assume you're referring to x86's
> > >
> > >     "%s%s[%d]: segfault at %lx ip %08lx sp %08lx error %lx"
> > >
> > > printk in the kernel logs?
> > >
> > > Can you please send some examples of the log output?
> > >
> > > Is there actually any observeable problem apart from the logs?  Are
> > > applications dying where they previously did not?
> > >
> >
> > Yes there is a issue with a lot of apps dying, especially the
> > gnome-power-* apps which means my power management fails to work
> > frequently.  I'm on Git-10 currently and I'm going to patch it up to
> > date right now because it looks like there have been some memory remap
> > patches lately.  I will update the list after I do so.
> >
>
> OK, worried.  This is a huge bug.  But afaik you're the only person 
> who has
> hit it, so there must be something special in your setup which is
> triggering it.  This could be hard.
>

OK here is what I get with the git16 kernel.  On boot I get this error:

PCI: Not using MMCONFIG
PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f0000000 is not reserved in ACPI motherboard 
resources
PCI: Not using MMCONFIG

Attached is a complete log after this boot
>
>
>

View attachment "boot.log" of type "text/x-log" (55073 bytes)