Hi, Dean, Thanks for your quick response. The two patches I applied on my 2.6.9 i386 kernel are:
1. kdb-v4.4-2.6.9-common-2 2. kdb-v4.4-2.6.9-i386-1 Are these two patches the most updated one for 2.6.9 i386 kernel ? or there are other patches that I need to apply ? Thanks, John W. >Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:33:41 -0600 >From: Dean Roehrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Problem with kdb-v4.4-2.6.9 >Content-Disposition: inline >User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i >X-archive-position: 1152 >X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 >X-original-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-list: kdb >X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on oss.sgi.com >X-Virus-Status: Clean > >On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 08:18:07PM -0800, johnpw wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I have been running kdb v4.4-2.6.9 on 2.6.9 kernel for two weeks. >> I have found the following problems: >> >> 1. When the kernel panic, the bt command does not show the >> correct stack trace and the arguments on the calling chain. >> I did not have this problem with kdb-v4.3-2.4.21 on >> 2.4.21 kernel. I patched the kernel with kdb and there was >> no failure. >> >> for example, >> When the kernel panic, The console showed the following output, >> >> >> inode hda7:2555908 at cdbed370: mode 40755, nlink 0, next 0 >> Assertion failure in ext3_put_super() at fs/ext3/super.c:418: >> "list_empty(&sbi->s_orphan)" >> ------------[ cut here ]------------ > > >Hmmm, you don't say what arch you have. It's a 32bit something? > >I would check for arch/<my-arch> kdb fixes that came later. For my own 2.6.9 >(RHEL4) kernels I am using the 2.6.9 kdb patches and then various bits from >all later kdb patches--especially anything that would fall under >arch/<my-arch>. > >So this means my kdb patch stack for RHEL4 on x86_64 contains these patches: > >kdb-v4.4-2.6.9-common-2 >kdb-v4.4-2.6.9-rc2-x86-64-1 >kdb-task-fixes --compile error fix, from a later patch >kdb-machine_restart --kdb_reboot() fix for x86_64, inspired by a later patch >kdb-backtrace-fixes --kdba_bt_stack() fix for x86_64, from later patches > ># Misc things from kdb patches that were spun for later 2.6.x kernels. At ># least one of these adds new useful kdb commands like 'inode', etc. > >kdb-fixes-from-2.6.10 >kdb-fixes-from-2.6.11-a >kdb-fixes-from-2.6.13 >kdb-fixes-from-2.6.14 > >I haven't been using my 2.6.9 kernels lately, though, so I can't say if I'm >seeing the problems you're describing or if one of the above fixes it. I also >have all of my kdb stuff built-in to the kernel, rather than loading as >modules as you have it. > >Dean >--------------------------- >Use http://oss.sgi.com/ecartis to modify your settings or to unsubscribe. --------------------------- Use http://oss.sgi.com/ecartis to modify your settings or to unsubscribe.
