Michael Kress wrote: > sorry, it took a bit ... not because I tested for so long time... ;-) > I've been modprobe'ing und rmmod'ing the driver constantly for an hour > or so (every few seconds, with 'watch') and I can still receive the > expected results without any flaw, nothing irregular, no strange syslog > messages etc. > woops, that was a bit too quick - I got that after calling 'sensors' every 3 seconds for the whole afternoon: Oct 14 17:19:14 matrix kernel: general protection fault: 0000 [1] SMP Oct 14 17:19:14 matrix kernel: CPU 0 Oct 14 17:19:14 matrix kernel: Modules linked in: xfs exportfs pc87427 hwmon i2c_isa i2c_core xt_physdev iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables bridge ipv6 autofs4 sunrpc pcmcia yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core joydev video thermal processor fan container button battery ac uhci_hcd ehci_hcd e1000 dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror ext3 jbd dm_mod 3w_9xxx aic79xx scsi_transport_spi sd_mod Oct 14 17:19:14 matrix kernel: Pid: 16330, comm: sensors Not tainted 2.6.16-xen #2 Oct 14 17:19:14 matrix kernel: RIP: e030:[<ffffffff80178679>] <ffffffff80178679>{vfs_read+281} Oct 14 17:19:14 matrix kernel: RSP: e02b:ffff88003b5adf18 EFLAGS: 00010202 Oct 14 17:19:14 matrix kernel: RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: 4c0841894c01894c RCX: 0000000000000000 Oct 14 17:19:14 matrix kernel: RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff8800352fe1e0 Oct 14 17:19:14 matrix kernel: RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 00000000fffffffb R09: 0000000000000000 Oct 14 17:19:14 matrix kernel: R10: 00000000ffffffff R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001 Oct 14 17:19:14 matrix kernel: R13: 00002ba7142df000 R14: ffff88003b5adf50 R15: 000000000054ff10 Oct 14 17:19:14 matrix kernel: FS: 00002ba7141d98a0(0000) GS:ffffffff8049b000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 Oct 14 17:19:14 matrix kernel: CS: e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 Oct 14 17:19:14 matrix kernel: Process sensors (pid: 16330, threadinfo ffff88003b5ac000, task ffff88003fec8970) Oct 14 17:19:14 matrix kernel: Stack: ffff880000e3fc80 0000000000001000 00002ba7142df000 fffffffffffffff7 Oct 14 17:19:15 matrix kernel: 0000000000000000 ffffffff80178a23 0000000000000000 0000000000000002 Oct 14 17:19:15 matrix kernel: 0000000000001000 000000000054ff10 Oct 14 17:19:15 matrix kernel: Call Trace: <ffffffff80178a23>{sys_read+83} <ffffffff8010b206>{system_call+134} Oct 14 17:19:16 matrix kernel: <ffffffff8010b180>{system_call+0} Oct 14 17:19:16 matrix kernel: Oct 14 17:19:16 matrix kernel: Code: 4c 8b 6b 10 48 89 df 41 0f b7 45 4c 25 00 f0 00 00 3d 00 40 Oct 14 17:19:16 matrix kernel: RIP <ffffffff80178679>{vfs_read+281} RSP <ffff88003b5adf18> But it only appeared once, I normally load the module once, then I call it every 3 sec over the whole day. The only difference today: I loaded the module lots of times today. Another difference: I activated MSI in the kernel in order to solve this problem: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0610.1/0101.html CONFIG_PCI_MSI=y Salut - Michael -- Michael Kress, kress at hal.saar.de http://www.michael-kress.de / http://kress.net P E N G U I N S A R E C O O L