Am 13.03.2012 23:38, schrieb Boaz Harrosh:
> Since a while now my UMLs are constantly crashing in __module_text_address
>
> which makes no sense because if I do gdb> list *(__module_text_address+0xd)
> I get:
>
> 0x6005614e is in __module_text_address
> (/media/usr0/export/dev/bharrosh/git/pub/linux-open-osd/kernel/module.c:3469).
> 3464 * module doesn't get freed during this.
> 3465 */
> 3466 struct module *__module_text_address(unsigned long addr)
> 3467 {
> 3468 struct module *mod = __module_address(addr);
> 3469 if (mod) {
> 3470 /* Make sure it's within the text section. */
> 3471 if (!within(addr, mod->module_init,
> mod->init_text_size)
> 3472&& !within(addr, mod->module_core, mod->core_text_size))
> 3473 mod = NULL;
>
> It can not be crashing in line 3469, I suspect it's crashing inside
> __module_address(addr); at line 3468
>
> Below it's crashing as part of the console operation, which is the most
> common one, but it can crash in
> __module_text_address as part of other stack traces like networking and so
> on. From my feel it's always
> related to some UML driver that actually operates as part of the host. But I
> can't be sure.
>
> I'm running with 3.3-rc4 but I'm hit with this since 3.0, I tried to bisect
> this at the time, but I found out that I could not find a perfectly good point
> even as far as 3.6.37. So I suspected there is something wrong with my
> uml-image file
> or my host. But now I upgraded both host and image to FC15 (was FC12/FC13)
> and I get
> the same exact crashes. It came to a situation that I can't complete any kind
> of heavy operation anymore and have abandoned UML for VMS for now. But I'm
> very sorry to see UML go.
>
> Can anyone help me with some insight on what I should try, to debug this
> thing.
>
What exactly triggers the crash?
IOW, how can I reproduce it?
> BTW:
> How to debug UML under gdb, it forks like mad and if I do:
> gdb> set detach-on-fork off
> It will just freeze. And if I do
> gdb> attach<some-vmlinux-child-process>
> (Try to attach to any but the top parent process)
> Will return "access not permitted". I guess UML is a debugger of sorts and it
> can't be
> double debugged.
e.g:
$ gdb linux
(gdb) handle SIGSEGV noprint nostop pass
(gdb) set args <your kernel args>
(gdb) run
UML "forks like mad" because it creates an thread for each process
within UML...
Thanks,
//richard
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