Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992624AbWKAQ0S (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:26:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992628AbWKAQ0S (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:26:18 -0500 Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com ([64.233.162.195]:45842 "EHLO nz-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992624AbWKAQ0R (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:26:17 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id:from; b=iM8TdQmHlgtBYwmY9aF56ePnbfsaMHh4fVMs2zoWyguBYvR4+vtSkDt660GQXnIPt5qzJZXphqvgV57UafEwWTQ8mIRJaNJw1I6ogvzaD8fyc6iE/0BIKzx/aa+yDIix5A4hMKc+mwCMB6da6JB+NjyJuFnC/TVgV/nvfVTtpM0= Reply-To: andrew.j.wade@gmail.com To: andrew.j.wade@gmail.com Subject: Re: [2.6.19-rc3-mm1] BUG at arch/i386/mm/pageattr.c:165 Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:25:56 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Greg KH , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , Kay Sievers References: <20061029160002.29bb2ea1.akpm@osdl.org> <20061031042032.GA12729@kroah.com> <200610310010.09759.ajwade@cpe001346162bf9-cm0011ae8cd564.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <200610310010.09759.ajwade@cpe001346162bf9-cm0011ae8cd564.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611011126.02648.ajwade@cpe001346162bf9-cm0011ae8cd564.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com> From: Andrew James Wade Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1094 Lines: 29 On Tuesday 31 October 2006 00:09, Andrew James Wade wrote: > On Monday 30 October 2006 23:20, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:11:23PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:58:11 -0500 > > > Andrew James Wade wrote: > > > > > > > I've just found out that unsetting CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED makes the > > > > crash go away. > > > > > > How bizarre. sysfs changes cause unexpected pte protection values? > > Perhaps one of the drivers is responding badly to device_create > failing? (-EEXIST, if I'm not mistaken). > > > > > That's just wrong. Something odd is happening here. Can you try to > > bisect things to determine the patch that is causing the problem? > > Sure. driver-core-fixes-sysfs_create_link-retval-checks-in.patch is where this particular crash starts. Andrew Wade - 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/