https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17361 --- Comment #15 from Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@xxxxxxx> 2010-10-04 18:48:29 --- I've explored some of the ideas you mentionned. First, I disabled kmemcheck, and indeed I've got no warning at all. So this is really a kmemcheck + something else (buggy driver or perf counters as mentionned by Vegard in his previous mail). I could check the reverse: kmemcheck but without perf counters, however I cannot unselect the perf option on my config (it is forced by something else I've not found). kmemcheck used to work (I don't know if perf counters were available in previous kernels however). Second, I have most of my drivers built in, however I use sound cards as modules in order to control the load order. I've booted after erasing the /lib/module driver, but with kmemcheck enabled, and it was far better. I got only one kmemecheck error: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready ERROR: kmemcheck: Fatal error Pid: 1914, comm: gtk-update-icon Not tainted 2.6.36-rc6 #13 K8 Combo-Z/K8 Combo-Z RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81010b90>] [<ffffffff81010b90>] x86_perf_event_update+0x0/0x80 RSP: 0018:ffff880002607d50 EFLAGS: 00010086 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000ffffffff RDX: ffff88000260b5c0 RSI: 0000000000000400 RDI: ffff88003f808800 RBP: ffff880002607df8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000004 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000038 R12: ffff88000260b7c8 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88000260b7c0 R15: ffff88003f808800 FS: 00007fdb70d5e700(0000) GS:ffff880002600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffff88003f836420 CR3: 000000003da52000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff4ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [<ffffffff8102bc34>] kmemcheck_error_save_bug+0xb4/0xe0 [<ffffffff8102c658>] kmemcheck_access+0xe8/0x4a0 [<ffffffff8102ca82>] kmemcheck_fault+0x72/0x80 [<ffffffff81026f89>] do_page_fault+0x359/0x440 [<ffffffff8159711f>] page_fault+0x1f/0x30 [<ffffffff81011528>] perf_event_nmi_handler+0x78/0x140 [<ffffffff810665d0>] notifier_call_chain+0x50/0xa0 [<ffffffff81066b81>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x71/0xd0 [<ffffffff81066bf1>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x11/0x20 [<ffffffff81066c2e>] notify_die+0x2e/0x30 [<ffffffff81004343>] do_nmi+0x193/0x2b0 [<ffffffff8159740a>] nmi+0x1a/0x2c [<ffffffff8102c5c7>] kmemcheck_access+0x57/0x4a0 [<ffffffff8102ca82>] kmemcheck_fault+0x72/0x80 [<ffffffff81026f89>] do_page_fault+0x359/0x440 [<ffffffff8159711f>] page_fault+0x1f/0x30 [<ffffffff810dab55>] do_lookup+0x55/0x170 [<ffffffff810dcb10>] link_path_walk+0x130/0xbd0 [<ffffffff810dd720>] path_walk+0x60/0xe0 [<ffffffff810dd7f3>] do_path_lookup+0x53/0x60 [<ffffffff810de433>] user_path_at+0x53/0xa0 [<ffffffff810d4c17>] vfs_fstatat+0x37/0x70 [<ffffffff810d4c86>] vfs_stat+0x16/0x20 [<ffffffff810d4e5f>] sys_newstat+0x1f/0x50 [<ffffffff810023ab>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff The good news is all other errors are gone. Here is the lsmod output without kmemcheck, just to tell the modules that could cause more grief: Module Size Used by snd_intel8x0 29098 1 snd_cmipci 31770 4 snd_opl3_lib 9332 1 snd_cmipci snd_hwdep 6314 1 snd_opl3_lib snd_mpu401_uart 6360 1 snd_cmipci snd_rawmidi 20342 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_ac97_codec 117688 1 snd_intel8x0 ac97_bus 1290 1 snd_ac97_codec The .config file is already attached to this bug report (please note I've also some other unused drivers configured, for hardware I do not use for now). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html