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Message-ID: <20100424121347.GN29093@bicker>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:13:47 +0200
From: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To: Pedro Francisco <pedrogfrancisco@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ath5k misbehaving affecting other kernel parts unrelated?
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:27:00AM +0100, Pedro Francisco wrote:
> A Sexta, 23 de Abril de 2010 20:13:42 Dan Carpenter escreveu:
> > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 08:06:13AM +0100, Pedro Francisco wrote:
> -snip
> > >
> > > Is it possible a faulty ath5k module to affect diverse parts of kernel
> > > causing different oopses to happen referencing things as different as
> > > cdrom_ioctl, find_vma, i915_gem_object_get_pages,
> > > get_vfs_caps_from_disk,
> > > warn_slowpath_common (ath5k_tasklet_rx), proc_lookup_de and
> > > _spin_lock(ext4_getattr) [soft lookup]?
> >
> -snip
> >
> > If you know a working version of the kernel try a git bisect otherwise
> > just post your dmesg with the crash etc.
> >
>
> I don't. I doubt the dmesg will be of significance, as I said they're never the
> same.
> However I've posted the dmesgs here [
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1457568 ] prior to asking for help in
> LKML. Kernel version is Ubuntu's 2.6.32, not Vanilla.
>
> I believe nothing significant can be extracted from them. Am I correct?
>
Well they have the 'M' taint for "Machine Check Exception" so that
probably means the hardware is failing.
regards,
dan carpenter
> --
> Pedro
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