linux-kernel - Re: Kenrel oops

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Message-ID: <50279.199.79.32.17.1210273206.squirrel@www.datavault.us>
Date:	Thu, 8 May 2008 12:00:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:	"Yan Seiner" <yan@...ner.com>
To:	"Jan Kara" <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	"linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kenrel oops


Jan Kara
>> I just had this kernel oops.  Approximately 5 mintes later, the machine
>> hard-locked.  Can anyone give me some guidance on where to look?
>   Any chance of reproducing this without the NVidia module? It looks
> like filp->f_op->flush contained an invalid pointer (although
> ffff81007e3d1300 doesn't look completely insane but more like a pointer
> to data than to a function). Weren't you playing with rmmod before this
> happened?

I was playing with Xephyr on top of X, so it's possible that the script I
was using tried to load the opensource nv module on top of the nvidia
module and/or that there was repeated insmod/rmmod of nvidia and nv before
this happened.

I've not been able to reproduce this since.

--Yan


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