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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu shocked and awed us all by speaking:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:26:01 EDT, Douglas J Hunley <doug@hunley.homeip.net>
said:
> > Just had my athlon box lock-up solid. needed SysRq to reboot the thing..
> > kernel info follows:
> > Jul 24 13:08:23 doug kernel: Badness in pci_find_subsys at
> > drivers/pci/search.c:132
> > Jul 24 13:08:23 doug kernel: Call Trace:
> > Jul 24 13:08:23 doug kernel: [<c02064a1>] pci_find_subsys+0x111/0x120
> > Jul 24 13:08:23 doug kernel: [<c02064df>] pci_find_device+0x2f/0x40
> > Jul 24 13:08:23 doug kernel: [<c0206368>] pci_find_slot+0x28/0x50
> > Jul 24 13:08:23 doug kernel: [<f8a2ada4>] os_pci_init_handle+0x3a/0x67
>
> The 'badness in pci_find_subsys' may not be related to your hang.
>
> The NVidia msgs are basically caused by the fact that pci_find_slot() is
> getting called in an interrupt, so we trigger the WARN_ON in
> pci_find_subsys(). The worry here is that we may be walking the PCI list on
> the interrupt side while something else is hotplugging a new device into
> existence, causing it to walk off the end of a inconsistent list. Unless
> you actually crapped out right at 13:08:23, it's probably unrelated.
OK. But I don't have any hot-plugging enabled on this machine. Unless the
kernel is internally doing things...
It crapped out within a matter of seconds. Started chewing up all available
system RAM, then went totally non-responsive to anything but SysRQ (couldn't
even kill X with CTRL-ALT-BKSP)
>
> (I was getting the same NVidia traceback on a regular basis (3-4 at every
> start of the X server, and 1 at X server shutdown) under 2.5.72-mm3, they
> stopped when I went to 2.5.73-mm1. If you're still seeing them in
> 2.6.0-test1, I would suspect something different in the -mm series is
> fixing them for me - first place to look is what got added between 72-mm3
> and 73-mm1.
I try to stick w/ Linus' tree, but I'll attempt to decipher the changelogs on
the -mm tree...
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http://doug.hunley.homeip.net && http://www.linux-sxs.org
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