linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: boot failure with next-20100603

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Date:	Fri, 4 Jun 2010 02:06:59 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: boot failure with next-20100603

Hi Linus,

On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 07:51:35 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> I can't read PPC oopses in my sleep the way I can do x86, and in 
> particular, I can't pinpoint that to the source code by just decoding the 
> instructions and matching them against what I have. Do you have that 
> binary, and can you do a 'gdb vmlinux' on it, and then have gdb tell you 
> where in load_module "load_module+0x990" and "load_module+0x958" are?

I was hoping to avoid that :-)

Rusty seems to have already figured out an obvious cause, so I will see
if that fixes it tomorrow (later today).

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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