From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754549AbYIDEmn (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:42:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750955AbYIDEmd (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:42:33 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:58960 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750941AbYIDEmc (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:42:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 21:42:25 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Stephen Rothwell Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for September 3 Message-Id: <20080903214225.d7831142.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080903191619.6b6b230e.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> References: <20080903191619.6b6b230e.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 19:16:19 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote: > I have created today's linux-next tree at > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git ug. What a lot of bugs. acpi: calling param_sysfs_init+0x0/0x153 ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:465 sysfs_add_one+0x2a/0x36() sysfs: duplicate filename 'acpi' can not be created Modules linked in: Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27-rc5 #4 [] warn_slowpath+0x4e/0x77 [] ? __lock_acquire+0x671/0x6b7 [] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0xd [] ? native_sched_clock+0x82/0x96 [] ? ifind+0x7e/0x88 [] ? _spin_unlock+0x27/0x3c [] ? ifind+0x7e/0x88 [] ? sysfs_find_dirent+0x16/0x27 [] sysfs_add_one+0x2a/0x36 [] create_dir+0x43/0x71 [] sysfs_create_dir+0x2d/0x41 [] ? _spin_unlock+0x27/0x3c [] kobject_add_internal+0xb3/0x157 [] kobject_add_varg+0x35/0x41 [] kobject_init_and_add+0x26/0x28 [] kernel_param_sysfs_setup+0x4c/0x99 [] param_sysfs_init+0xf7/0x153 [] _stext+0x3d/0x11d [] ? param_sysfs_init+0x0/0x153 [] ? wake_up_process+0xf/0x11 [] ? start_workqueue_thread+0x1d/0x20 [] ? __create_workqueue_key+0xe4/0xfc [] kernel_init+0xeb/0x152 [] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x152 [] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 ======================= ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]--- kobject_add_internal failed for acpi with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory. Pid: 1, comm: swapper Tainted: G W 2.6.27-rc5 #4 [] kobject_add_internal+0x11f/0x157 [] kobject_add_varg+0x35/0x41 [] kobject_init_and_add+0x26/0x28 [] kernel_param_sysfs_setup+0x4c/0x99 [] param_sysfs_init+0xf7/0x153 [] _stext+0x3d/0x11d [] ? param_sysfs_init+0x0/0x153 [] ? wake_up_process+0xf/0x11 [] ? start_workqueue_thread+0x1d/0x20 [] ? __create_workqueue_key+0xe4/0xfc [] kernel_init+0xeb/0x152 [] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x152 [] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 ======================= Module 'acpi' failed to be added to sysfs, error number -17 there seem to have been tens or even hunderds of reports of this. Odd.