Re: 2.6.17-rc2-mm1

From: Andy Whitcroft
Date: Wed May 03 2006 - 04:12:55 EST


Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 May 2006 09:08, Jan Beulich wrote:
>
>>>>><EOE>new stack 0 (0 0 0 10082 10)
>>>>
>>>>Looks like <rubbish> <SS> <RSP> <RFLAGS> <CS> to me, ...
>>>
>>>Hmm, right.
>>>
>>>
>>>>>Hmm weird. There isn't anything resembling an exception frame at the top of the
>>>>>stack. No idea how this could happen.
>>>>
>>>>... which is a valid frame where the stack pointer was corrupted before the exception occurred. One more printed
>>
>>item
>>
>>>>(or rather, starting items at estack_end[-1]) would allow at least seeing what RIP this came from.
>>>
>>>Any can you add that please and check?
>>
>>???
>
>
> Sorry I meant to write Andy but left out the d :-( - he did the testing
> on the machine that showed the problem.

Heh, happy to do the testing. Just to make sure I am doing the right
thing, you want an entire stack frame dropped out in the case that
SS/RSP are 0; so we get the RIP.

-apw
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