linux-kernel - Re: mtdchar kernel oops

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Date:	Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:51:21 -0300
From:	Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>
To:	Joel Reardon <joel@...mbassador.com>
Cc:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mtdchar kernel oops

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Joel Reardon <joel@...mbassador.com> wrote:
>> I think that this patch:
>> "mtdchar: kill persistently held vfsmount"
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.commits.head/314175
>>
>> has started causing kernel oops's when running ubiformat. The oops is
>> occuring in fs/namespace.c's mnt_add_count() line:
>>        this_cpu_add(mnt->mnt_pcp->mnt_count, n);
>
> I also see kernel oops when running flash_eraseall on a SPI NOR flash.
>
> If this patch is reverted the flash_eraseall operation is successful.

I am no longer getting kernel oops on 3.4.0-rc3-next-20120418.
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