Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261152AbTKTAVX (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:21:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261168AbTKTAVX (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:21:23 -0500 Received: from 217-124-4-129.dialup.nuria.telefonica-data.net ([217.124.4.129]:12928 "EHLO dardhal.mired.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261152AbTKTAVV (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:21:21 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 01:21:19 +0100 From: Jose Luis Domingo Lopez To: linux-kernel Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test9-mm4 (only) and vmware Message-ID: <20031120002119.GA7875@localhost> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel References: <20031119181518.0a43c673.vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031119181518.0a43c673.vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2924 Lines: 68 On Wednesday, 19 November 2003, at 18:15:18 -0300, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > With the recent 2.6.0-test9-mm4 i can't start the vmware, it reports in vmware.log (debug ON): > I can confirm the problem here also with 2.6.0-test9-mm4, while everything worked fine with 2.6.0-test9-mm3 with the same config. I also realized while doing some basic tests that module "vmmon" was unable to unload gracefully, and "has" to be forced to do so. I can try to gather some more info when I come back from sleep + work. PS: just in case it can help, VMware 4.0.1 5289 "patched" with (if I recall correctly): http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update43.tar.gz PS2: trying to "recompile" vmmon and vmnet again and starting VMware, when tried to boot some guest OS I got the following in the logs: kernel BUG at mm/memory.c:793! invalid operand: 0000 [#5] CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[] Tainted: PF VLI EFLAGS: 00013212 EIP is at get_user_pages+0xe7/0x300 eax: 00001000 ebx: 406a0000 ecx: 00000000 edx: de7452c0 esi: d5966ec0 edi: 00000001 ebp: df8be940 esp: d052bcec ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process vmware-vmx (pid: 11300, threadinfo=d052a000 task=d9634cc0) Stack: df8be940 d5966ec0 406a0000 00000001 00000002 00000000 00000000 d052a000 d052bd64 000406a0 d052bd44 e0b5012e d9634cc0 df8be940 406a0000 00000001 00000001 00000000 d052bd64 00000000 00000000 406a0000 d052bd74 e0b501a9 Call Trace: [] HostIFGetUserPage+0x3a/0x66 [vmmon] [] HostIF_LockPage+0x4f/0x2a2 [vmmon] [] Vmx86_LockPage+0x63/0xe0 [vmmon] [] __LinuxDriver_Ioctl+0x2f0/0x978 [vmmon] [] read_pages+0x1c8/0x1e0 [] ext3_get_block+0x0/0xa0 [] __alloc_pages+0xaf/0x350 [] do_page_cache_readahead+0xbe/0x110 [] buffered_rmqueue+0xaf/0x140 [] __alloc_pages+0xaf/0x350 [] LinuxDriver_Open+0x7c/0x9e [vmmon] [] __get_free_pages+0x1f/0x50 [] HostIF_AllocPage+0x11/0x32 [vmmon] [] LinuxDriverAllocLowMem+0x57/0xca [vmmon] [] __vma_link+0x3a/0xa0 [] LinuxDriver_IoctlV4+0x4d/0xd2 [vmmon] [] do_mmap_pgoff+0x41a/0x6f0 [] LinuxDriver_Ioctl+0x131/0x1b8 [vmmon] [] sys_ioctl+0xb5/0x230 [] sys_close+0x50/0x60 [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Code: 00 85 c0 74 4b 85 c0 7e 2c 83 f8 01 75 0c 8b 44 24 30 ff 80 d8 01 00 00 eb bd 83 f8 02 75 0c 8b 54 24 30 ff 82 dc 01 00 00 eb ac <0f> 0b 19 03 d1 b6 2c c0 eb a2 40 75 f3 8b 5c 24 18 b8 f4 ff ff Greetings. -- Jose Luis Domingo Lopez Linux Registered User #189436 Debian Linux Sid (Linux 2.6.0-test9-mm4) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/