[PATCH 00/37] xfs: current 3.4 patch queue

[Ben Myers]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:14:39AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 09:15:46PM -0500, Ben Myers wrote:
> > I'm also testing this patch set them without Jan's work, since I'm not sure when
> > it will be pulled in.  Here's the latest:
> > 
> > case login: [ 2934.077472] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc900036a8010
> > [ 2934.078452] IP: [<ffffffffa009a790>] xlog_get_lowest_lsn+0x30/0x80 [xfs]
> > [ 2934.078452] PGD 12b029067 PUD 12b02a067 PMD 378f5067 PTE 0
> > [ 2934.078452] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> > [ 2934.078452] CPU 1
> > [ 2934.078452] Modules linked in: xfs(O) exportfs e1000e [last unloaded: xfs]
> > [ 2934.078452]
> > [ 2934.078452] Pid: 9031, comm: kworker/1:15 Tainted: G           O 3.4.0-rc2+ #3 SGI.COM AltixXE310/X7DGT-INF
> 
> What out-of-tree module do you have loaded that tainted the kernel?
> The ethernet driver?

I tend to build xfs out of tree and then 'insmod ./xfs.ko'.

Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt:
4096 - An out-of-tree module has been loaded

# cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted 
4096

-Ben