2.5.49+ and sysrq (may lock with modules loaded)?

[Kevin Brosius <cobra@compuserve.com>]

I was trying to use sysrq tonight and had a couple problems.  While the
Doc/sysrq.txt file says it is enabled by default, it does not appear to
be any longer.  After enabling sysrq with an echo "1" to the sysrq /proc
entry, I tried an alt-sysrq-t, and promptly had a kernel oops in the
print routine, for a failed kernel paging request.  The machine is hard
locked at this point and must be reset (sysrq no longer responds.)

I tried to repeat this, to write down some of the oops, but on reboot
(prior to loading any modules) I could not get any printout from sysrq
other than the HELP message.  In response to alt-sysrq-t I only see the
first "SysRq : " printout with no task info.

The first run had some modules I had manually loaded, so I went ahead
and insmod'd sound.o and usbcore.o.  After that, alt-sysrq-t causes an
oops.  Here's a snippet (by hand):

Oops
 EIP 0060:c0134c48
  __print_symbol+0x48/0x120
 process swapper
Call Trace
  e094ae89 Unable to handle kernel paging request

An EIP lookup on my vmlinux yields:
(gdb) l *0xc0134c48
Line 190 of "include/asm/string.h" starts at address 0xc0134c3f
<__print_symbol+63> and ends at 0xc0134c5c <__print_symbol+92>.
\x1a\x1a/usr/src/linux-bk/include/asm-i386/string.h:190:4260:beg:0xc0134c3f

I'm using a recent bk tree (a day or two old), so the relevant portion
from string.h appears to be:

#define __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN
static inline size_t strlen(const char * s)
{
int d0;
register int __res;
__asm__ __volatile__(
    	"repne\n\t"
    	"scasb\n\t"
    	"notl %0\n\t"
    	"decl %0"
    	:"=c" (__res), "=&D" (d0) :"1" (s),"a" (0), "0" (0xffffffff));
return __res;
}

with the 
__asm__ __volatile__(
line being pointed out by my debugger.


-- 
Kevin