Re: 2.6.30-rc6: i915: Xserver crash - oops after rmmod

From: Jesse Barnes
Date: Thu Jun 11 2009 - 12:38:07 EST


On Thu, 28 May 2009 07:13:57 +0200
Niel Lambrechts <niel.lambrechts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> On 05/28/2009 02:14 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 May 2009 21:21:18 +0200
> > Niel Lambrechts <niel.lambrechts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> > Huge response, huh?
> >
> Yeah, no one fell for the humour coating... ;-)
>
> > The wordwrapping makes this painful to read.
> >
> > rmmod crashed under drivers/acpi/video.c:acpi_video_exit()'s call to
> > acpi_bus_unregister_driver(). So it might be an acpi-related bug.
> >
> > If it's reproducible at all, please raise a (non-wordwrapped!)
> > report against acpi at bugzilla.kernel.org, thanks.
> >
> Ugh, Thunderbird doesn't format it like this when you preview - but
> when I save it to a file it looks horrible...
>
> I don't think I would easily be able to reproduce this, but I still
> had a copy of my kernel log for that date. The bug is filed at:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13396
>
> Also, if you do have a moment, I'd love to hear your opinion on my
> post "2.6.29.4: hibernation fails with large kernel trace"!
>
> Thanks for the response!

Btw I think this is fixed now (I noticed it recently but it's gone
now). IIRC it was a bug caused by trying to uninit the ACPI video
portion of the driver twice at unload time.

--
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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