Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758969AbYJIQVa (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:21:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753953AbYJIQVT (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:21:19 -0400 Received: from smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.27]:3098 "EHLO smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753793AbYJIQVT (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:21:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 18:21:17 +0200 From: Folkert van Heusden To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [2.6.25 Power5 64bit] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data: something to do with /sys Message-ID: <20081009162116.GF28224@vanheusden.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Organization: www.unixexpert.nl X-Chameleon-Return-To: folkert@vanheusden.com X-Xfmail-Return-To: folkert@vanheusden.com X-Phonenumber: +31-6-41278122 X-URL: http://www.vanheusden.com/ X-PGP-KeyID: 1F28D8AE X-GPG-fingerprint: AC89 09CE 41F2 00B4 FCF2 B174 3019 0E8C 1F28 D8AE X-Key: http://pgp.surfnet.nl:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x1F28D8AE Reply-By: Fri Oct 10 14:44:58 CEST 2008 X-Message-Flag: PGP key-id: 0x1f28d8ae - consider encrypting your e-mail to me with PGP! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3104 Lines: 50 Hi, While running my rmmod/modprobe script (an improved one that forks itself a couple of times) I did twice the following: find /sys/ -type f | xargs cat > /dev/null The second time it hang and I got an oops: [ 5838.193438] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0xd00000000002b498 [ 5838.193456] Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000033360 [ 5838.193468] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#2] [ 5838.193477] SMP NR_CPUS=32 NUMA pSeries [ 5838.193487] Modules linked in: ibmveth windfarm_cpufreq_clamp(+) ipv6 ext3 jbd mbcache sd_mod ibmvscsic scsi_transport_srp scsi_tgt scsi_mod windfarm_smu_sat windfarm_core [last unloaded: windfarm_pid] [ 5838.193538] NIP: c000000000033360 LR: c000000000172678 CTR: c00000000011e32c [ 5838.193552] REGS: c000000044ca79a0 TRAP: 0300 Tainted: G D (2.6.27-rc6-powerpc64) [ 5838.193563] MSR: 8000000000009032 CR: 28004488 XER: 20000012 [ 5838.193588] DAR: d00000000002b498, DSISR: 0000000040000000 [ 5838.193598] TASK = c000000046335380[4877] 'find' THREAD: c000000044ca4000 CPU: 3 [ 5838.193610] GPR00: c0000000001726c0 c000000044ca7c20 c000000000638f50 d00000000002b498 [ 5838.193630] GPR04: d00000000002b497 0000000000000005 0000000000000005 00000000000008be [ 5838.193650] GPR08: 0000000000000004 000000001003ba78 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [ 5838.193669] GPR12: 000000000000f032 c000000000663a00 0000000000000001 0000000000000003 [ 5838.193689] GPR16: 000000000000000b 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000004 [ 5838.193708] GPR20: 000000001003d5a0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000001003b998 [ 5838.193728] GPR24: 0000000000000016 c000000044ca7de0 c000000044ca7de0 c0000000005fc780 [ 5838.193747] GPR28: c00000004322d180 d00000000002b498 c0000000005d3bb0 c000000044ff2dc0 [ 5838.193776] NIP [c000000000033360] .strlen+0x4/0x18 [ 5838.193789] LR [c000000000172678] .sysfs_readdir+0x150/0x200 [ 5838.193798] Call Trace: [ 5838.193808] [c000000044ca7c20] [c0000000001726c0] .sysfs_readdir+0x198/0x200 (unreliable) [ 5838.193826] [c000000044ca7cc0] [c00000000011e63c] .vfs_readdir+0xbc/0x118 [ 5838.193840] [c000000044ca7d70] [c00000000011e9b8] .sys_getdents64+0x84/0x104 [ 5838.193855] [c000000044ca7e30] [c0000000000086b4] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40 [ 5838.193867] Instruction dump: [ 5838.193874] 4d820020 7ca903a6 38a3ffff 3884ffff 8c650001 2c830000 8c040001 7c601851 [ 5838.193898] 4d860020 4102ffec 4e800020 3883ffff <8c040001> 2c000000 4082fff8 7c632050 [ 5838.223292] ---[ end trace ac51cd380c187147 ]--- Folkert van Heusden -- MultiTail is a versatile tool for watching logfiles and output of commands. Filtering, coloring, merging, diff-view, etc. http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: +31-6-41278122, PGP-key: 1F28D8AE, www.vanheusden.com -- 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/