On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 15:54, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> > Look in subsys_attr_show(). It is being passed a kobject, which is a
> > member of a "struct sys_device". We can tell this because I printed out
> > the address of the sys device in sys_device_register(). A to_subsys()
> > is being performed on that object, which is wrong, because the kobject
> > is not a member of a "struct subsystem".
>
> My question was how the hell it was getting there in the first place, and
> I see that the type of the object isn't getting set properly, so it
> defaults to treat it as a struct subsystem.
Stack dump from si_meminfo_node():
Call Trace:
[<c0133f39>] si_meminfo_node+0x4d/0x54
[<c02029ac>] node_read_meminfo+0x1c/0x80
[<c013385a>] __alloc_pages+0x82/0x2b4
[<c011c8fb>] release_console_sem+0x9b/0xa4
[<c0175ead>] subsys_attr_show+0x1d/0x28
[<c0175f7a>] fill_read_buffer+0x96/0xb4
[<c01ebf5e>] opost_block+0x18e/0x19c
[<c01eed92>] pty_write+0x156/0x168
[<c0154d8c>] do_lookup+0x18/0x8c
[<c0151a2f>] cp_new_stat64+0xe7/0x100
[<c017604b>] sysfs_read_file+0x1b/0x3c
[<c014960c>] vfs_read+0x9c/0xcc
[<c01497ed>] sys_read+0x31/0x4c
[<c0108bd7>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> Could you please try the following patch, and let me know if it works?
That fixed it, thanks.
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