Re: 2.4.18pre2 oops using agpgart

[Bob Glamm]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 05:44:17PM +0100, Cristiano Paris wrote:
> It finally turned out that using the agpgart module with my notebook makes
> my machine crash and reset. Here's the last oops :

Hehehe you think this error is specific to agpgart?  I've seen very
similar traces from SMP.  Even sent these specific tracebacks here,
offered to help track down the problem, got 0 help.  This problem
has been around since at least 2.4.2.

Good luck.

-Bob

> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004
> c012f857
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0002
> CPU:    0
> EIP:    0010:[<c012f857>]    Not tainted
> Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
> EFLAGS: 00010212
> eax: 00000000   ebx: ca5e3a80   ecx: 00000000   edx: c0254f34
> esi: 00000000   edi: ffffffe9   ebp: c14062e0   esp: c9a6bf54
> ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
> Process fetchmail (pid: 3134, stackpage=c9a6b000)
> Stack: bfffeebc ffffffe9 c012e73a bfffeebc cc8c8000 00000000 bfffeeac c012e71a
>        cf6902e0 c14062e0 00000000 00000003 cc8c8000 bffff624 cf6902e0 c14062e0
>        bffff624 bfffeeac 00000000 00000001 00000001 c012ea4a cc8c8000 00000000
> Call Trace: [<c012e73a>] [<c012e71a>] [<c012ea4a>] [<c0106b0b>]
> Code: 89 50 04 89 02 ff 0d 24 4f 25 c0 31 c0 b9 1a 00 00 00 89 df
> Error (Oops_bfd_perror): set_section_contents Bad value
> 
> >>EIP; c012f856 <get_empty_filp+16/108>   <=====
> Trace; c012e73a <dentry_open+16/188>
> Trace; c012e71a <filp_open+52/5c>
> Trace; c012ea4a <sys_open+36/94>
> Trace; c0106b0a <system_call+32/38>
> 
> I've seen many of these oops. Please help.
> 
> Cristiano
> 
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