linux-kernel - Re: Kenrel oops

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Date:	Thu, 8 May 2008 21:05:54 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Yan Seiner <yan@...ner.com>
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 mean more like removing some filesystem modules or so which doesn't
seem to be the case.

> I've not been able to reproduce this since.
  OK. So far I have no clue what could have caused this (besides some
weird corruption with nvidia module) so I'll wait if someone comes with
a similar report...

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SuSE CR Labs
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