From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750786AbWGCUSE (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:18:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750759AbWGCUSE (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:18:04 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:19605 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750786AbWGCUSB (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:18:01 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 13:17:52 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Alistair John Strachan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.17-mm6 Message-Id: <20060703131752.9eaf6c9b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200607032056.28556.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> References: <20060703030355.420c7155.akpm@osdl.org> <200607032027.21879.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060703123920.ff1a497a.akpm@osdl.org> <200607032056.28556.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:56:28 +0100 Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Monday 03 July 2006 20:39, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:27:21 +0100 > > > > Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > > On Monday 03 July 2006 11:03, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17/2. > > > >6.17 -mm6/ > > > > > > Doesn't boot reliably as an x86-64 kernel on my X2 system, 3/4 times it > > > oopses horribly. Is there some way to supress an oops flood so I can get > > > a decent picture of it with vga=extended? Right now I get two useless > > > oopses after the first (probably useful) one. > > > > Try adding `pause_on_oops=100000' to the kernel boot command line. > > (Trimmed Nathan) > > Helped somewhat, but I'm still missing a bit at the top. > > http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/oops-20060703/ > That is irritating. This should get us more info: --- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c~a +++ a/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c @@ -122,12 +122,12 @@ void printk_address(unsigned long addres symname = kallsyms_lookup(address, &symsize, &offset, &modname, namebuf); if (!symname) { - printk(" [<%016lx>]\n", address); + printk(" [<%016lx>] ", address); return; } if (!modname) modname = delim = ""; - printk(" [<%016lx>] %s%s%s%s+0x%lx/0x%lx\n", + printk(" [<%016lx>] %s%s%s%s+0x%lx/0x%lx ", address, delim, modname, delim, symname, offset, symsize); } #else _