Re: kernel-4.9.270 crash

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 03:51:39AM +0200, wim wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 12:52:20PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > from kernel-4.9.270 up until now (4.9.282) I experience kernel crashes upon
> > > > > > loading a GPU module.
> > > > > > ...
> > > > 
> > > > Do you have any kernel log messages when these crashes happen?
> > > ...
> > > Aug  1 20:51:24 djo kernel:  [<f8bc4ef7>] ? 0xf8bc4ef7
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > These aren't going to help us much, can you turn on debugging symbols
> > for these crashes for us to see the symbol names?
> 
> ERROR: not enough memory to load nouveau.ko

That's the only error?  Maybe you don't have enough memory?

> i915.ko is smaller and my laptop is bigger. Identical crash, no symbols.

Odd.

> > > > Can you use 'git bisect' to track down the offending commit?
> > > 
> > > If I would know how to do that
> > 
> > 'man git bisect' should provide a tutorial on how to do this.
> 
> No, it does not.
> It would have taken an enormous amount of time and GBs less if I'd found
> earlier the only pointer on internet that stated:
> 
>   cd linux
>   git remote add stable git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
>  
> and that brought me reasonably fast to this:
> 
>   3bd3a8ca5a7b1530f463b6e1cc811c085e6ffa01 is the first bad commit
>   commit 3bd3a8ca5a7b1530f463b6e1cc811c085e6ffa01
>   Author: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk>
>   Date:   Thu May 13 11:51:50 2021 +0200
>   ...

That is a vt change that handles an issue with a console driver, so this
feels like a false failure.

If you revert this change on a newer kernel release, does it work?

And what about showing us the symbols of that traceback?

thanks,

greg k-h