Re: 2.4.0-test11pre2-ac1 and previous problem

From: Jasper Spaans (jasper@spaans.ds9a.nl)
Date: Mon Nov 13 2000 - 03:58:17 EST


On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 01:27:13PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:

> >That's a pretty wierd trace. You seem to have addresses related
> >to the `apm' kernel thread on mysqld's stack.
>
> Normal unfortunately. Firstly the ix86 oops code just scans the stack
> and prints anything that looks like it might be a kernel address. It
> makes no attempt to confirm that these really are return addresses, so
> an ix86 oops trace gets lots of false positives. Secondly that trace
> was converted by klogd (symbols in call trace line instead of numbers)
> not by ksymoops, I do not trust the klogd algorithm at all.

All right, here's another one, this time using the oops directly from the
console -- this seems to give better symbols.. The 'console shuts up ...'
works, the oops from the other CPU didn't get put out.

Will try test11-pre3 + kdb this afternoon, if it compiles.

Regards,

-- 
Jasper Spaans  <jasper@spaans.ds9a.nl>


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