Re: 2.6.0-test9-mm3

[Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Triple faults you can't debug, they raise a line outside the CPU, and 
> normal PC hardware will cause that to just trigger a reboot.
> 
> But double faults do get caught, and that debugging stuff actually is in
> the standard kernel. It won't give _nearly_ as good a debug report as a
> "normal" oops, since I didn't want the double-fault handler to touch
> anything even remotely unsafe, but it often gives a good hint about what
> might be wrong. Certainly better than triple-faulting did (which we still
> do for _catastrophic_ corruption, eg totally munged kernel page tables etc
> - it's just very hard to avoid once you get corrupted enough).

"Catastrophic" seems to be rather apt here. 2.6.0-test8-mm1 produced the 
following, i'm still doing a binary search.

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00002000
 printing eip:
00007341
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0004 [#1]
PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
CPU:    0
EIP:    c000:[<00007341>]    Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00033246
EIP is at 0x7341
eax: 32454256   ebx: 00000000   ecx: 00000000   edx: 00000000
esi: 00000000   edi: 00002000   ebp: 00000fd6   esp: 08763f24
ds: 0000   es: 0000   ss: 0068
Process X (pid: 939, threadinfo=08762000 task=0890b330)
Stack: 00000fcb 00000100 00000000 0000c000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
       00000005 ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff
       ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff
Call Trace:

Code:  Bad EIP value.
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