it crashes at generic_make_request. the dump file shows
<6>calling generic make request
<1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
<7> printing eip:
<7>00000000
<1>*pde = 00000000
<7>Oops: 0000
<7>CPU: 2
<7>EIP: 0010:[<00000000>] Tainted: PF
<7>EFLAGS: 00010286
<7>eax: 8031f060 ebx: ba9c8860 ecx: 00000811 edx: 00000001
<7>esi: ba9c8860 edi: 00000000 ebp: af6a7ed4 esp: af6a7ea4
<7>ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
<7>Process insmod (pid: 12882, stackpage=af6a7000)
<7>Stack: 80196749 8031f060 00000001 ba9c8860 00000000 00000246 00000020 af6a7ed4
<7> 8011bcb9 ba9c8860 00000000 00000000 af6a7ef4 f937b1ec 00000001 ba9c8860
<7> 8011bcb9 f937b000 00000000 f937b000 af6a7f14 f937b24a f937b480 f937b559
<7>Call Trace: [<80196749>] [<8011bcb9>] [<f937b1ec>] [<8011bcb9>] [<f937b24a>]
<7> [<f937b480>] [<f937b559>] [<8011cc79>] [<f937b93c>] [<f937b060>] [<80108dc3>]
<7>
<7>Code: Bad EIP value.
<7>
<7>dump: Dumping to device 0x302 [ide0(3,2)] on CPU 2 ...
<7>dump: Compression value is 0x0, Writing dump header
<7>
<7>dump: Pass 1: Saving Kernel Pages:
<7>dump: Memory Bank[0]: 0 ... e80fffff:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rik van Riel"
To: "ganesh kumar"
Subject: Re: give your comments
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 23:08:28 -0400 (EDT)
>
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, ganesh kumar wrote:
>
> > it crashes the system.
>
> Surely you know at which line in the source code
> it crashes ?
>
> If you want people to be able to help you, it will
> be useful to provide people with enough information
> to know what's going on...
>
> --
> "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
> by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
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