On Tuesday 29 March 2005 23:02, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:28:20 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 March 2005 10:27, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > On Monday 28 March 2005 12:26, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > > Steps to reproduce for me: > > > > * Boot CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL=y kernel (.config, dmesg are attached) > > > > * Start rebooting > > > > * Start moving serial mouse (I have Genius NetMouse Pro) > > > > * Right after gpm is shut down I see the oops > > > > * The system continues to reboot > > > > > > Could you try the patch below, please? Thanks! > > > > > Input: serport - fix an Oops when closing port - should not call > > > serio_interrupt when serio port is being unregistered. > > > > Doesn't work, sorry. Even worse: rebooting now also produces many pages of > > oopsen, then hang the system. I'm willing to test any new patches. > > Does it oops at the same place with this patch or at some other place?
I manage to find this in the logs (nothing more :-( ): ============================================================================ Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000068 printing eip: c0202947 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT Modules linked in: ipt_REJECT ipt_state ip_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables binfmt_misc uhci_hcd snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc floppy CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c0202947>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010282 (2.6.12-rc1-bk2-serio) ============================================================================ According to vmlinux, c0202947 is at: c020293e <serport_ldisc_write_wakeup>: c020293e: 8b 80 78 09 00 00 mov 0x978(%eax),%eax c0202944: 8b 40 0c mov 0xc(%eax),%eax c0202947: 8b 50 68 mov 0x68(%eax),%edx <<<<==== c020294a: 85 d2 test %edx,%edx c020294c: 74 07 je c0202955 <serport_ldisc_write_wakeup+0x17> c020294e: 8b 52 10 mov 0x10(%edx),%edx c0202951: 85 d2 test %edx,%edx c0202953: 75 01 jne c0202956 <serport_ldisc_write_wakeup+0x18> c0202955: c3 ret c0202956: ff d2 call *%edx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

