Re: [crash/panic] Linux-2.6.0-test9

[Andrew Morton]

Gary Wolfe <gpwolfe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
> 
> I have:
> 
> Asus P4C800 Deluxe w/2.4GHz P4 (no HT and not 800Mhz bus)
> 
> Tried test8 and, now, test9 and both exhibit same problem.
> 
> The issue seems to be related to the PnPBIOS support under the Plug and 
> Play Kconfig category.  When enabled I get a crash of the form:
> 
> Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
> PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
> PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f5350
> PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0x5f3a, dseg 0xf0000
> general protection fault: 0000 [#1]
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0098:[<00002b60>] Not tainted
> EFLAGS: 00010083
> EIP is at 0x2b60
> eax: 000023d6  ebx: 0000007a  ecx: 00010000  edx: 00000001
> esi: dfed244e  edi: 0000006d  ebp: dfed0000  esp: dfed9eda

Your stack pointer became misaligned.  I thought Manfred fixed that?
You don't have nmi_watchdog enabled on the kernel boot command line
do you?

> ds: 00b0  es: 00b0  ss: 0068
> Process Swapper (pid:1 threadinfo=dfed8000 task=c151b900)
> Stack: 000003d6 23d629d2 00000000 815d006d 0000d3ff 00010001 9f2c80fc 
> 006dd408
> 9f2c0000 d3ff9f08 00060001 61f990c0c 010c010c 007b6054 0000007b 00a08000
> 601000b0 00a85fd6 00000082 000b0000 00010090 00a80000 00b00000 00a00001
> Call Trace:
> 
> Code: Bad EIP value.
> <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
> 
> ....blinking  cursor and nothing else.
> 
> If I remove the PNPBIOS option I get past this point.  I would be happy 
> to email my full .config should anyone wish to look at it.  I'd also be 
> happy to test any patches anyone may have for this issue.
> 

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