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Re: notifier chain problem? (was Re: 2.6.17-rc1 did break XFS)

To: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: notifier chain problem? (was Re: 2.6.17-rc1 did break XFS)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:21:18 +0200 (MEST)
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxx>, Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx, xfs-masters@xxxxxxxxxxx, stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, sekharan@xxxxxxxxxx, akpm@xxxxxxxx, David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>
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>> 
>> Looks strange, the faulting address is in the same region as the
>> eip. I am not that strong on x86 layouts, so I am not sure whether
>> 0x78xxxxxx is the kernel's mapping or it's module space. Almost looks
>> like something else had registered a notifier and then gone away
>> without unregistering it.
>
>sorry, the essential data I didn't provide here is
>probably that I configured the 2G/2G split, which for
>unknown reasons actually is a 2.125/1.875 split and
>starts at 0x78000000 (instead of 0x80000000)

That's how it is coded in arch/i386/Kconfig. It says 78 rather than 80.
Maybe Con has an idea?


Jan Engelhardt
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