Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753181AbZAFVMl (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:12:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751554AbZAFVMa (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:12:30 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:44888 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751365AbZAFVM3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:12:29 -0500 Message-ID: <4963C93A.1060708@rtr.ca> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:12:26 -0500 From: Mark Lord Organization: Real-Time Remedies Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081125) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org, v4l-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org, Linux Kernel , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.6.28: Oops at acpi_ds_exec_end_op+0x1b: kills machine Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3324 Lines: 84 This happened on our Mythtv box at startup this morning: The Oops happened once only, at system startup, on initial device probe. Not reproduceable, so probably a rare race of some kind. The xc5000 module was loaded with "init_fw=1" to force f/w load on modprobe. 2.6.28 kernel, SMP, x86_64, two CPUs (Core2duo 1.86GHz), 2GB RAM. Oops text typed in by hand from screen photos ( original photos: http://rtr.ca/xc5000_lockup ) ... xc5000: firmware read 12332 bytes. xc5000: firmware upload BUG kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000000c IP: [] acpi_ds_exec_end_op+0x1b/0x3c4 PGD 7c8cd067 PUD 7d411067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP last sysfs file: /sys/class/firmware/i2c-2/loading CPU 0 ... Modules linked in: xc5000 au8522 tea5767 tda9887 tda8290 tea5761 fuse au0828(+) dvd_core usbhid tuner_simple tuner_types snd_hda_intel msp3400 ... nvidia(P) ... ... Pid: 2383, comm: modprobe Tainted: P A 2.6.28 #9 RIP: 0010:[] [] acpi_ds_exec_end_op+0x1b/0x3c4 RSP: 0018:ffff88007a095ad8 EFLAGS: 00010296 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88007f8588f0 R10: ffff88007f8a4d40 R11: ffff8800000bf9e0 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffff88007e43bc10 R14: ffff88007a0ac000 R15: ffff88007e43bc10 FS: 00007f844d5666e0(0000) GS:ffffffff8060f540(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b ... Process modprobe (pid: 2383, threadinfo ffff88007a094000, task ffff88007fa043d0) Stack: ffff88007a085380 0000000000000000 ffff88007a085380 ffffffffa09cfb28 ffff88007e43bc10 ffffffffa09f263f ffff88007a095b18 ffff88007a085380 ffffc200109e6000 ffff88007a085380 000000000000f9f9 00000000000094d7 Call Trace: xc_load_fw_and_init_tuner+0x14b/0x29c [xc5000] i2c_transfer+0x8a/0x94 xc5000_init+0x3d/0x6f [xc5000] xc5000_attach+0x22c/0x256 [xc5000] __symbol_get+0x2c/0xd3 au0828+dvb_register+0x2ec/x5cb [au0828] au0828_usb_probe+0x10c/0x140 [au0828] usb_match_id+0x32/0x58 [usbcore] usb_probe_interface+0xfb/0x132 [usbcore] driver_probe_device+0xb5/0x159 __driver_attach+0x59/0x80 __driver_attach+0x0/0x80 bus_for_each_dev+0x44/0x78 bus_add_driver+0xac/0x1f2 driver_register+0xa2/0x11f usb_register_driver+0x7e/0xe0 [usbcore] au0828_init+0x0/0xbb [au0828] au0828_init+0xa1/0xbb [au0828] _stext+0x56/0x14f vma_link+0x90/0xa2 update_curr+0x49/0xf0 enqueue_task_fair+0x14c/0x161 check_preempt_wakeup+0xf4/0x124 try_to_wake_up+0x16a/0x17c sys_init_module+0xa0/0x1a9 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Code: 00 66 c7 40 0c c0 00 89 d8 48 83 c4 18 5b 5d c3 41 55 41 54 55 48 89 48 83 ec 08 48 8b 87 08 03 00 00 4c 8b a7 00 03 00 00 <8a> 50 0c 8a 40 0? c8 83 f9 0a 75 25 41 0f b7 4c 24 0a 48 RIP [] acpi_ds_exec_end_op+0x1b/0x3c4 RSP CR2: 000000000000000c ---[ end trace c23df576c022eb7e ]--- Could someone perhaps explain how acpi_ds_exec_end_op even enters the picture here? I'm confused by that. The driver was doing/completing an i2c firmware transfer at the time of the oops. Thanks -- 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/