Re: 2.6.17-mm6

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:56:28 +0100
Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Monday 03 July 2006 20:39, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:27:21 +0100
> >
> > Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Monday 03 July 2006 11:03, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17/2.
> > > >6.17 -mm6/
> > >
> > > Doesn't boot reliably as an x86-64 kernel on my X2 system, 3/4 times it
> > > oopses horribly. Is there some way to supress an oops flood so I can get
> > > a decent picture of it with vga=extended? Right now I get two useless
> > > oopses after the first (probably useful) one.
> >
> > Try adding `pause_on_oops=100000' to the kernel boot command line.
> 
> (Trimmed Nathan)
> 
> Helped somewhat, but I'm still missing a bit at the top.
> 
> http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/oops-20060703/
> 

That is irritating.  This should get us more info:

--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c~a
+++ a/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c
@@ -122,12 +122,12 @@ void printk_address(unsigned long addres
 	symname = kallsyms_lookup(address, &symsize, &offset,
 					&modname, namebuf);
 	if (!symname) {
-		printk(" [<%016lx>]\n", address);
+		printk(" [<%016lx>] ", address);
 		return;
 	}
 	if (!modname)
 		modname = delim = ""; 		
-	printk(" [<%016lx>] %s%s%s%s+0x%lx/0x%lx\n",
+	printk(" [<%016lx>] %s%s%s%s+0x%lx/0x%lx ",
 		address, delim, modname, delim, symname, offset, symsize);
 }
 #else
_

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