Hi, I get the following Ooops message when "udevadm" is running on an ARM S3C2440 CPU based system: [...] starting udevd...done Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e3540000 pgd = c39d4000 [e3540000] *pgd=00000000 Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] Modules linked in: CPU: 0 Not tainted (2.6.31-rc4-00296-ge084b2d-dirty #10) PC is at strlen+0xc/0x20 LR is at kobject_get_path+0x24/0xa4 pc : [<c0115338>] lr : [<c0111f48>] psr: a0000013 sp : c39bdea0 ip : 00000005 fp : c029645b r10: c02e0430 r9 : 00000000 r8 : c3802c60 r7 : c001de30 r6 : 000000d0 r5 : 00000001 r4 : c001de30 r3 : e3550001 r2 : e3540000 r1 : 000000d0 r0 : e3540000 Flags: NzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment user Control: c000717f Table: 339d4000 DAC: 00000015 Process udevadm (pid: 325, stack limit = 0xc39bc270) Stack: (0xc39bdea0 to 0xc39be000) dea0: c001de28 00000003 c393d778 c399d000 c3802c60 c014dce0 c029645b c0112200 dec0: c393d778 00000000 00000003 c393d780 c399d000 c0112400 00000000 00020001 dee0: c0307fdc 00000000 c3950960 c027ddc3 c380cda0 c343b3d4 c3811e60 00000000 df00: 00000000 c393d778 00000003 c3960520 c393d780 c02e0470 c3960538 c39bdf88 df20: 00019cb0 c014dd80 c382db20 00000000 c3960538 c38ede7c 00000003 c014d464 df40: c38ede7c c00bf224 c382db20 00019cb0 c39bdf88 00000004 00000003 c39bc000 df60: 00000000 c0080bd8 c343b3d4 00000020 00000000 00000000 c382db20 00000004 df80: c0022fa8 c0080d38 00000000 00000000 bead3250 00000000 00026d98 00000003 dfa0: bead3250 c0022e00 00026d98 00000003 00000003 00019cb0 00000003 00000000 dfc0: 00026d98 00000003 bead3250 00000004 00022a90 bead3678 00019cb0 00019cb0 dfe0: 00022a94 bead3250 00018114 400d8f1c 40000010 00000003 00000000 00000000 [<c0115338>] (strlen+0xc/0x20) from [<c0111f48>] (kobject_get_path+0x24/0xa4) [<c0111f48>] (kobject_get_path+0x24/0xa4) from [<c014dce0>] (dev_uevent+0x1dc/0x208) [<c014dce0>] (dev_uevent+0x1dc/0x208) from [<c0112400>] (kobject_uevent_env+0x18c/0x3a8) [<c0112400>] (kobject_uevent_env+0x18c/0x3a8) from [<c014dd80>] (store_uevent+0x74/0x88) [<c014dd80>] (store_uevent+0x74/0x88) from [<c014d464>] (dev_attr_store+0x20/0x28) [<c014d464>] (dev_attr_store+0x20/0x28) from [<c00bf224>] (sysfs_write_file+0x104/0x13c) [<c00bf224>] (sysfs_write_file+0x104/0x13c) from [<c0080bd8>] (vfs_write+0xb0/0x15c) [<c0080bd8>] (vfs_write+0xb0/0x15c) from [<c0080d38>] (sys_write+0x40/0x6c) [<c0080d38>] (sys_write+0x40/0x6c) from [<c0022e00>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x2c) Code: c02dbe78 e1a02000 ea000000 e2800001 (e5d03000) ---[ end trace 4d391449ae70e71a ]--- Segmentation fault [...] This Oops does not occure in v2.6.31-rc4 and occures in v2.6.31-rc5. Bisected to the commit: e084b2d95e48b31aa45f9c49ffc6cdae8bdb21d4 "page-allocator: preserve PFN ordering when __GFP_COLD is set" But its curious: The same binary kernel still runs without this oops on an ARM S3C2410 CPU. Regards, Juergen -- Pengutronix e.K. | Juergen Beisert | Linux Solutions for Science and Industry | Phone: +49-8766-939 228 | Vertretung Sued/Muenchen, Germany | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html