On Fri, 12 May 2000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> >
> > haven't run a 2.3 on a laptop since the 2.3.40's but the pre's seem to a
> > bit brittle... I got this while installing staroffice.
> >
>
> Could you please feed this info into ksymoops? Or at least look up the
> EIP value (c013bed4) with:
>
> cd /usr/src/linux
> gdb vmlinux
> x/10i 0xc013bed4
0xc013bed4 <__pollwait+24>: mov 0x4(%esi),%eax
0xc013bed7 <__pollwait+27>: cmp $0x7e,%eax
0xc013beda <__pollwait+30>: ja 0xc013c000 <__pollwait+324>
0xc013bee0 <__pollwait+36>: shl $0x5,%eax
0xc013bee3 <__pollwait+39>: add 0x8(%esi),%eax
0xc013bee6 <__pollwait+42>: incl 0x14(%edx)
0xc013bee9 <__pollwait+45>: mov %edx,(%eax)
0xc013beeb <__pollwait+47>: mov %ebp,0x1c(%eax)
0xc013beee <__pollwait+50>: mov $0xffffe000,%esi
0xc013bef3 <__pollwait+55>: and %esp,%esi
> I suspect you're dying in __poll_wait(), and that you are the third
> person to report this problem with 2.3 on Toshibas.
looks like it.
> Is the oops correlated with DMA timeouts?
not all the time, or I'll have to try and repeat it a couple more times. I
think I've seen the dma timeout without the oops.
having now run with 2.2.15 for most of the afternoon I'm pretty sure it's
2.3.x not the hardware causing the dma timeouts...
> Have you tried running without IDE DMA? (hdparm -d 0 /dev/hda)
will do that.
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