Re: initrd oops with 2.4.5ac2: Tthe other oops remains (one fixed)

[Ville Herva]

On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 01:05:07PM +0300, you [Ville Herva] claimed:
> On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 06:02:54PM +0900, you [Masaru Kawashima] claimed:
> > On Mon, 28 May 2001 10:25:51 +0300
> > Ville Herva <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > > The oops call trace seems to be the same as in 
> > > 
> > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=99079948404775&w=2
> > > 
> > > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Did you try the patch posted by Go Taniguchi <[e-mail]>?
> > Following is the copy of his message and the patch itself.
> > 
> > --- linux/fs/block_dev.c.orig	Mon May 28 12:40:12 2001
> > +++ linux/fs/block_dev.c	Mon May 28 12:40:12 2001
> > @@ -602,6 +602,7 @@
> >  	if (!bdev->bd_op->ioctl)
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> >  	inode_fake.i_rdev=rdev;
> > +	inode_fake.i_bdev=bdev;
> >  	init_waitqueue_head(&inode_fake.i_wait);
> >  	set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
> >  	res = bdev->bd_op->ioctl(&inode_fake, NULL, cmd, arg);
> 
> Yes, I actually spotted the patch on l-k just a while ago and tried it.
> 
> It does fix the initrd case; I haven't tried the grub case, but I suspect it
> still remains. Will try that as well asap.

The other OOPS (http://v.iki.fi/~vherva/tmp/bootlog.grub and
http://v.iki.fi/~vherva/tmp/ksymoops-grub) still remains: 

>>EIP; c014259a <find_inode+1a/50>   <=====
Trace; c0142995 <iget4+45/d0>
Trace; c012a492 <__alloc_pages+62/230>
Trace; c0145c60 <proc_get_inode+40/100>
Trace; c0145d4c <proc_read_super+2c/b0>
Trace; c01343e2 <read_super+62/b0>
Trace; c01348ff <kern_mount+4f/b0>
Trace; c0105000 <do_linuxrc+0/e0>
Trace; c0100197 <L6+0/2>
Code;  c014259a <find_inode+1a/50>
00000000 <_EIP>:
Code;  c014259a <find_inode+1a/50>   <=====
   0:   39 7e 20                  cmp    %edi,0x20(%esi)   <=====
Code;  c014259d <find_inode+1d/50>
   3:   75 f1                     jne    fffffff6 <_EIP+0xfffffff6> c0142590
<find_inode+10/50>
Code;  c014259f <find_inode+1f/50>
   5:   8b 44 24 14               mov    0x14(%esp,1),%eax
Code;  c01425a3 <find_inode+23/50>
   9:   39 86 90 00 00 00         cmp    %eax,0x90(%esi)
Code;  c01425a9 <find_inode+29/50>
   f:   75 e5                     jne    fffffff6 <_EIP+0xfffffff6> c0142590
<find_inode+10/50>
Code;  c01425ab <find_inode+2b/50>
  11:   8b 54 24 00               mov    0x0(%esp,1),%edx

2.4.2-2 (redhat) is fine; 2.4.4 vanilla oopses after probing PCI hardware
(so it goes little further than 2.4.5ac2), and 2.4.5ac2 oopses after making
page-cache hash table.

 
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