From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757615AbYBGLPQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 06:15:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755707AbYBGLO6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 06:14:58 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.187]:42123 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752281AbYBGLO5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 06:14:57 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=s6mw9cZvHW2FTqrxSuiYx4SayFI1rn+9Y9mKuXgtFiQMuGDt3esWB+ZjX6lJ/7i+2BqU+yoHKg3wycXNq1el7m/uifpPh10VTAqrRY2Fz/QixACJpOr3w8I7K/VhXlEyZGpeFUHV0iXG09vugq40HfGaLdP2qc+bwo7UrbzvAao= Message-ID: <8120cfd40802070314x2799bcbatf42e3fe824a18c22@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:14:56 +0100 From: "Harald Arnesen" To: "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: Latest git oopses during boot Cc: "FUJITA Tomonori" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Matthew Wilcox" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080207020214.0f0cf1c7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <8120cfd40802060832w2dd3631foad324b3633427230@mail.gmail.com> <20080206144732.5a1a2c3b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <8120cfd40802070144l79830c2cs6329c302697ecc8b@mail.gmail.com> <20080207020214.0f0cf1c7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2/7/08, Andrew Morton wrote: > > (cc's restored, and expanded a bit) Ah, sorry, not used to gmail's web interface. Clicked the wrong button. > > Seems to be the advansys driver, so I tried to remove it - and indeed, > > the kernel now boots. So I guess it's either that driver or my ancient > > Nikon Coolscan II that is the only thing attached to the board. > > Thanks. I uploaded the oops picture to > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/oops.jpg > > > Cc to the Matthew Wilcox added. > > mm... looks like all Matthew's changes were in 2.6.23. And 2.6.23 worked > OK, yes? Both 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 are ok. > The only recent changes to drivers/scsi/advansys.c are > > commit b80ca4f7ee36c26d300c5a8f429e73372d153379 > Author: FUJITA Tomonori > Date: Sun Jan 13 15:46:13 2008 +0900 > > [SCSI] replace sizeof sense_buffer with SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE > > This replaces sizeof sense_buffer with SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE in > several LLDs. It's a preparation for the future changes to remove > sense_buffer array in scsi_cmnd structure. > > Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori > Signed-off-by: James Bottomley > > :100644 100644 9dd3952... 492702b... M drivers/scsi/advansys.c > > commit 747d016e7e25e216b31022fe2b012508d99fb682 > Author: Randy Dunlap > Date: Mon Jan 14 00:55:18 2008 -0800 > > advansys: fix section mismatch warning > > Fix section mismatch warning: > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.exit.text+0x152a): Section mismatch: reference to .init. > > Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap > Cc: Matthew Wilcox > Cc: James Bottomley > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds > > which seem fairly benign. > > > gcc inlining is going to make it rather a lot of work to find out which > statement has actually oopsed there. -- Hilsen Harald