Re: linux-next: boot failure with next-20100603

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Thu Jun 03 2010 - 12:07:18 EST


Hi Linus,

On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 07:51:35 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I can't read PPC oopses in my sleep the way I can do x86, and in
> particular, I can't pinpoint that to the source code by just decoding the
> instructions and matching them against what I have. Do you have that
> binary, and can you do a 'gdb vmlinux' on it, and then have gdb tell you
> where in load_module "load_module+0x990" and "load_module+0x958" are?

I was hoping to avoid that :-)

Rusty seems to have already figured out an obvious cause, so I will see
if that fixes it tomorrow (later today).

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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