From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760241AbYGPQeX (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:34:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760215AbYGPQeD (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:34:03 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:37019 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760484AbYGPQeA (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:34:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:32:53 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: "Vegard Nossum" Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: Re: v2.6.26: Bad EIP value at shutdown Message-Id: <20080716093253.f15ff3d0.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0807151844g2cdac2f7x41c2d6832339b434@mail.gmail.com> References: <19f34abd0807151844g2cdac2f7x41c2d6832339b434@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.0; 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 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:44:18 +0200 Vegard Nossum wrote: > Hi, > > My apologies for the bad report, I just got this when shutting down a > v2.6.26, and with no camera at hand, I wrote down what I could see: > > The last line of the stack dump contained the number 0xfee1dead, which > I assume is some kind of magic number. ./linux/reboot.h:#define LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 0xfee1dead Not especially helpful info given that stacktrace. > The stacktrace: > > notifier_call_chain > _cpu_down > disable_nonboot_cpus > acpi_clear_gpe_block > kernel_power_off > sys_reboot > > Code: Bad EIP value > > So a NULL-pointer call. --- ~Randy Linux Plumbers Conference, 17-19 September 2008, Portland, Oregon USA http://linuxplumbersconf.org/