Re: problem with modules (modutils) and 2.5.31 kernel

From: Andrew Rodland (arodland@noln.com)
Date: Wed Aug 21 2002 - 13:16:42 EST

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 14:50:17 +1000
Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:25:19 -0600,
> moret@cs.unm.edu wrote:
> >I searched for, but could not find references to, a problem
> >I have with 2.5.31 and modutils.
> > insmod, depmod, update-modules all fail with the message:
> >
> >=> kernel: QM_SYMBOLS: Bad address
>
> Disable CONFIG_PREEMPT and rebuild the kernel.

or, as per a previous thread on the same issue, change line 181 of
arch/i386/mm/fault.c from:

if (preempt_count() || !mm)

to:

if (in_interrupt() || !mm)

and rebuild.

Sorry, no time to fool around with diff right now. Hope it was helpful.
--hobbs


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