linux-kernel - Re: v2.6.26: Bad EIP value at shutdown

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Message-Id: <20080716093253.f15ff3d0.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:32:53 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
Cc:	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: v2.6.26: Bad EIP value at shutdown

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:44:18 +0200 Vegard Nossum wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> My apologies for the bad report, I just got this when shutting down a
> v2.6.26, and with no camera at hand, I wrote down what I could see:
> 
> The last line of the stack dump contained the number 0xfee1dead, which
> I assume is some kind of magic number.

./linux/reboot.h:#define        LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1     0xfee1dead

Not especially helpful info given that stacktrace.


> The stacktrace:
> 
> notifier_call_chain
> _cpu_down
> disable_nonboot_cpus
> acpi_clear_gpe_block
> kernel_power_off
> sys_reboot
> 
> Code: Bad EIP value
> 
> So a NULL-pointer call.


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