I just installed 2.4.17pre7+preempt and it still shows the bug.
No oops yet (oops doesn't show up frequently).
2.4.17pre7 without preempt is being compiled right now.
> > > I reported a problem with preemptible 2.4.13 and Samba server (oops,
> > > problems with creation of files from win clients).
> > > Is this issue addressed?
> >
> > No, because I could not reproduce it. Could you see if it occurs on the
> > current kernel with the current patch? If so, send me the relevant
> > information.
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> I have ksymoops compiled from sources and it does not work right
> ("Error (Oops_bfd_perror): set_section_contents Section has no contents").
> Can you enlighten me why I'm getting ths message?
> Or just send me working ksymoops binary, we can sort out this later.
In preparation for oops I need ksymoops binary. Mine is not ok:
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 4008e6ed
> *pde = 01100067
> Oops: 0003
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<c010655b>]
> Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
> EFLAGS: 00010246
> eax: 00000000 ebx: 4008e76d ecx: 4008e6cd edx: 0000e865
> esi: 00000000 edi: 00000128 ebp: 4008e6c9 esp: c1c5bf74
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Process smbd (pid: 213, stackpage=c1c5b000)
> Stack: 5650faf0 c1c5a000 c029afd0 00000128 c01068d0 4008e6cd 4008e76d
> c1c5bf94 c02a23b2 55c3c85e ec83e589 4000bcd9 40015f67 4000bcd9 40015f67
> c1c5a000 00000000 00000000 bfffea74 c0107603 00000000 bfffe6a3 00000001
> 00000000 Call Trace: [<c01068d0>] [<c0107603>]
> Code: 89 51 20 31 c0 66 8b 53 0c 81 e2 ff ff 00 00 09 c6 89 51 1c
> Error (Oops_bfd_perror): set_section_contents Section has no contents
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Dunno is it a result of miscompiled ksymoops or what...
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