Re: kobject: delayed kobject release: help find buggy drivers

From: Dave Jones
Date: Thu Sep 05 2013 - 01:00:58 EST


On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 09:57:45PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 12:13:38AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 02:53:11PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> >
> > > >> With this enabled, I get a bunch of scrolling oopses immediately after
> > > >> exiting the bootloader. It happens so early I can't even capture them
> > > >> over usb-serial, or earlyprintk=dbgp.
> > > >>
> > > >> And for whatever reason, the printk path while oopsing ignores boot_delay parameter,
> > > >> so I can't even use that.
> > > >>
> > > >> any ideas ?
> > > >
> > > > The first big bug found with this was with the module kobject code, and
> > > > a fix for that should be going in through Rusty's tree to Linus for this
> > > > merge window (right Rusty?)
> > >
> > > Yep, just sent pull request. The fix was the final commit there...
> >
> > Crap, that isn't the bug I'm hitting.
>
> Any chance to get a oops traceback?

Trying to figure out where to stick a while (1) to stop it scrolling away.
The end of dump_stack apparently wasn't enough.

Dave

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