From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933381AbYEBAOS (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 20:14:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755208AbYEBAOI (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 20:14:08 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:49040 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753863AbYEBAOH (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 20:14:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 17:12:31 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Ryan Roth Cc: Andrew Morton , Ryan.Roth@CH2M.com, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10586] New: High Number of Segfaults onMacBookStarting With 2.6.24.5 Kernel Message-Id: <20080501171231.6248b7c0.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <481A5A94.2080400@sbcglobal.net> References: <20080501130444.cc5c63e8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <86A21F45FFA48B408A65E67054362EB6069DD742@CULEBRA.amr.ch2m.com> <20080501133003.be723364.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <86A21F45FFA48B408A65E67054362EB621C948@CULEBRA.amr.ch2m.com> <481A5276.4040607@sbcglobal.net> <20080501170239.9b740877.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <481A5A94.2080400@sbcglobal.net> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 01 May 2008 17:04:36 -0700 Ryan Roth wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 01 May 2008 16:29:58 -0700 > > Ryan Roth wrote: > > > > > >>> OK, worried. This is a huge bug. But afaik you're the only person > >>> who has > >>> hit it, so there must be something special in your setup which is > >>> triggering it. This could be hard. > >>> > >>> > >> OK here is what I get with the git16 kernel. On boot I get this error: > >> > >> PCI: Not using MMCONFIG > >> PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f0000000 is not reserved in ACPI motherboard > >> resources > >> PCI: Not using MMCONFIG > >> > > > > yeah, mmconfig is a problem. It should be harmless. Probably you're > > better off with it disabled ;) > > > > > >> Attached is a complete log after this boot > >> > > > > I see no 'segfault' messages in there? > > > > > Since this last boot I have only got these: > > > May 1 16:26:25 kernel: gnome-power-man[3112]: segfault at 0 ip 410fda > > sp 7fff4712c870 error 4 in gnome-power-manager[400000+47000] > > May 1 16:26:25 kernel: gnome-power-man[3116]: segfault at 0 ip 410fda > > sp 7fff2959cce0 error 4 in gnome-power-manager[400000+47000] > > May 1 16:26:25 kernel: gnome-power-man[3119]: segfault at 0 ip 410fda > > sp 7fffc7671db0 error 4 in gnome-power-manager[400000+47000] Are you using stack protector? How could we tell? I don't see it in the kernel log. Also, please post your kernel .config file. --- ~Randy