Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750701AbVJNJ5L (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:57:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750703AbVJNJ5L (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:57:11 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:21996 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750701AbVJNJ5K (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:57:10 -0400 To: Ingo Molnar Cc: lkml , Thomas Gleixner , Steven Rostedt , dwalker@mvista.com, david singleton Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc4-rt1 References: <20051011111454.GA15504@elte.hu> <1129135337.21743.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051014062212.GA30874@elte.hu> From: Andi Kleen Date: 14 Oct 2005 11:57:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20051014062212.GA30874@elte.hu> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 996 Lines: 23 Ingo Molnar writes: > * Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > > Hi Ingo, > > > > > > I am getting similar segfault on boot problem on 2.6.14-rc4-rt1 on my > > x86-64 box (with LATENCY_TRACE). > > > INIT: version 2.86 booting > > hotplug[877]: segfault at ffffffff8010f588 rip ffffffff8010f588 rsp > > 00007fffff8bee68 error 15 > > what does the ffffffff8010f588 RIP address map to? You can find out by It could be any kernel address that someone injected into user space. Most likely some problem with the vsyscall page with either signal handling or gettimeofday. vsyscall code is tricky to hack because you cannot add any new functions there, just inlines, otherwise the code won't end up the right section. -Andi - 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/