Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758685AbYFWSaa (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:30:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758541AbYFWSaX (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:30:23 -0400 Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.170.190]:26078 "EHLO rn-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755349AbYFWSaW (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:30:22 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=fv8+UTDLR/4A2R9K7K9LOosJ9Zw8Iafn2QF8IuwHVzuohT4YZrlp/SDiknZv9wEpUC WHH2MwcyjM1kDgkVit4m7jsgIAkam8ioBVWTWIAfDHE7m94+RuE6Mi7DXseoI4aChxo/ Yo3OT+62OmbFsyDUHmTEdjXGxUC9PCpXrr4Fo= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:30:20 -0400 From: Ian To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Oops in NFS (RHEL4, but also in kernel bugzilla) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6278d2220806181933l74719bdbkea02f697ee424157@mail.gmail.com> <9cfod5sayiq.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov> <6278d2220806231117v551d93f1o7ecb5c7558a62b96@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 763 Lines: 20 On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > There is chance that you've overrun the 4KB stack. Can you retest with > CONFIG_4KSTACK disabled perhaps? Testing is hard as the oops is not easily reproducible, but I'll prepare a non-4KSTACKS kernel so that I can boot to it if we oops again. I'm still interested to hear from someone if the patch in bugzilla is good for catching a real error case, or if it's papering over a larger problem (for example a stack overrun). Ian -- 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/