Re: looking for help tracing oops -- resolved

2005-09-06 Thread Christopher Friesen
Thanks for all the tips, guys. I managed to get the problem to occur on a vanilla kernel with just the proprietary module loaded. Contacted the vendor, they got me to try out a new driver, problem appears to be fixed. Looks like the module wasn't properly tracking refcounts, so it was

Re: looking for help tracing oops -- resolved

2005-09-06 Thread Christopher Friesen
Thanks for all the tips, guys. I managed to get the problem to occur on a vanilla kernel with just the proprietary module loaded. Contacted the vendor, they got me to try out a new driver, problem appears to be fixed. Looks like the module wasn't properly tracking refcounts, so it was

Re: looking for help tracing oops

2005-09-03 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Christopher Friesen wrote: > > I'm debugging a problem. Unfortunately, I have a module loaded that taints > the kernel. > > Now that that's out of the way, if anyone is still willing to help, the oops > is below, along with the disassembly of filp_close(). One thing I

Re: looking for help tracing oops

2005-09-03 Thread Chuck Ebbert
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 at 22:25:40 -0600, Christopher Friesen wrote: > One thing I > don't understand--the function makes calls to other functions including > printk(), but I don't see those calls listed in the disassembly. Calls to external functions whose

Re: looking for help tracing oops

2005-09-03 Thread Jiri Slaby
Christopher Friesen napsal(a): [snip] EIP is at filp_close+0x64/0xa0 [snip] 0x1a9a : call 0x1a9b 0x1a9f : mov%edi,0x4(%esp,1) 0x1aa3 : mov%ebx,(%esp,1) [snip] End of assembler dump. It seems, that this is disassemble output of something else. The

Re: looking for help tracing oops

2005-09-03 Thread Jiri Slaby
Christopher Friesen napsal(a): [snip] EIP is at filp_close+0x64/0xa0 [snip] 0x1a9a filp_close+58: call 0x1a9b filp_close+59 0x1a9f filp_close+63: mov%edi,0x4(%esp,1) 0x1aa3 filp_close+67: mov%ebx,(%esp,1) [snip] End of assembler dump. It seems, that

Re: looking for help tracing oops

2005-09-03 Thread Chuck Ebbert
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 at 22:25:40 -0600, Christopher Friesen wrote: One thing I don't understand--the function makes calls to other functions including printk(), but I don't see those calls listed in the disassembly. Calls to external functions whose address is

Re: looking for help tracing oops

2005-09-03 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Christopher Friesen wrote: I'm debugging a problem. Unfortunately, I have a module loaded that taints the kernel. Now that that's out of the way, if anyone is still willing to help, the oops is below, along with the disassembly of filp_close(). One thing I don't