Re: debugging frequent kernel panics on 8.2-RELEASE

2011-08-17 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Andriy Gapon" Thanks to the debug that Steven provided and to the help that I received from Kostik, I think that now I understand the basic mechanics of this panic, but, unfortunately, not the details of its root cause. It seems like everything starts with

Re: debugging frequent kernel panics on 8.2-RELEASE

2011-08-17 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:21:42PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: [skip] > But I also would like to use this opportunity to discuss how we can > make it easier to debug such issue as this. I think that this problem > demonstrates that when we treat certain junk in kernel address value > as a userland

Re: debugging frequent kernel panics on 8.2-RELEASE

2011-08-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
Thanks to the debug that Steven provided and to the help that I received from Kostik, I think that now I understand the basic mechanics of this panic, but, unfortunately, not the details of its root cause. It seems like everything starts with some kind of a race between terminating processes in a