On Thursday 25 August 2005 20:10, Jack F Vogel wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 02:33:57PM -0500, Ray Bryant wrote: > > I applied Jim's patch. The good news is that it applies cleanly. The > > bad news is that it doesn't fix my problem. > > > > I does appear that there is a bogus value in the notifier die_chain. I > > put a dump_stack() in notifier_call_chain() and that is getting invoked > > from do_page_fault() so I am working under the assumption at the present > > time that I took an unhandled kernel page fault and the bogus value in > > the die_chain was causing the triple fault. Why the first of these > > happened is still a mystery. (2.6.11 without the kdb patches boots > > fine.) > > > > At the moment I'm trying to track down where the bogus value in the > > die_chain is coming from. > > I got a kernel with the new patch just posted installed on > an Athlon64 machine, it boots ok, drops to kdb after its up. > I quickly checked the usual commands and everything worked ok. > > Unfortunately this system is uniproc, and I do not have access to > other boxes right now (I hope this is a temporary situation > to be correctted in a couple weeks). Anyone willing to give the > new patch a quick check on SMP? >
I will. > Maybe some debug printk in the notify_die registration code? I still > think that is where something is going wrong. > Yes, that was what I was working in yesterday when I got distracted with some other stuff. I will track down a UP Opteron as well and see what happens there. > Anything I can do to help let me know. > > Jack -- Ray Bryant AMD Performance Labs Austin, Tx 512-602-0038 (o) 512-507-7807 (c) --------------------------- Use http://oss.sgi.com/ecartis to modify your settings or to unsubscribe.
