My computer doesn't like 2.3.X

From: Jean Tourrilhes (jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com)
Date: Fri Mar 17 2000 - 20:09:51 EST

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            Hi everybody...

            <Note : I'm not suscribed to the mailing list>

            My trusty P90 (54MB, CMD640) is not very happy with the latest
    2.3.X kernels (2.3.40 -> 2.3.99-pre1). The following bugs have been
    verified with kernel 2.3.99-pre1 just a few minute ago...

            First of all, the hp100 driver complains :
    ---------------------------
    Mar 17 04:47:14 lagaffe kernel: Warning: kfree_skb on hard IRQ c4017647
    Mar 17 04:47:17 lagaffe last message repeated 4 times
    ---------------------------

            Then, the Pcmcia module i82365.o lock the computer hard when
    loaded at startup (sorry, no log).

            When I disable both Pcmcia and the hp100 driver, I still have
    the following crash, which occur for example when I try to untar,
    patch or compile a kernel (none of these actions can never complete
    without a crash).
            After the crash, most things don't work, but I can usually
    reboot the system. Sometime, I can manage to capture some log of the
    crash :
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------
    Mar 17 04:35:52 lagaffe kernel: stack segment: 0000 Mar 17 04:35:52
    lagaffe kernel: CPU: 0 Mar 17 04:35:52 lagaffe kernel: EIP:
    0010:[kmem_cache_grow+635/884] Mar 17 04:35:52 lagaffe kernel: EFLAGS:
    00010286 Mar 17 04:35:52 lagaffe kernel: eax: 00000073 ebx: c00ea0f8
    ecx: c10ff9e0 edx: c10ff9e0 Mar 17 04:35:52 lagaffe kernel: esi:
    c00eaf80 edi: 0000001d ebp: ffffffff esp: c2659e1c Mar 17 04:35:52
    lagaffe kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Mar 17 04:35:52 lagaffe
    kernel: Process tar (pid: 215, stackpage=c2659000) Mar 17 04:35:52
    lagaffe kernel: Stack: c10ff9e8 c10ff9e0 00000282 00000003 c00ea000
    c10ff9e8 00000000 00000202 Mar 17 04:35:52 lagaffe kernel: 00000001
    00000000 c01257a9 c10ff9e0 00000003 c105e418 00000c00 00000000 Mar 17
    04:35:52 lagaffe kernel: 00000400 c012c1fd c10ff9e0 00000003 c105e418
    00000c00 00000000 c012c2fc Mar 17 04:35:52 lagaffe kernel: Call Trace:
    [kmem_cache_alloc+205/288] [get_unused_buffer_head+57/184]
    [create_buffers+32/784] [create_empty_buffers+24/108]
    [__block_prepare_write+84/536] [balance_dirty+13/32]
    [block_prepare_write+34/60] Mar 17 04:35:52 lagaffe kernel:
    [ext2_get_block+0/1180] [ext2_prepare_write+25/32]
    [ext2_get_block+0/1180] [generic_file_write+819/1224]
    [sys_write+192/224] [system_call+52/56] Mar 17 04:35:52 lagaffe
    kernel: Code: 89 45 00 8b 6d 00 83 ef 01 73 c2 c7 45 00 00 00 00 00 fa
    c7
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------

            My config looks like this :
    ----------------------------------
    CONFIG_X86=y
    CONFIG_ISA=y
    CONFIG_UID16=y
    CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
    CONFIG_M586TSC=y
    CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
    CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
    CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
    CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
    CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
    CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
    CONFIG_MODULES=y
    CONFIG_KMOD=y
    CONFIG_NET=y
    CONFIG_PCI=y
    CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
    CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
    CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
    CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y
    CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
    CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
    CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
    CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y
    CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
    CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m
    CONFIG_PM=y
    # CONFIG_ACPI is not set
    # CONFIG_APM is not set
    ...
    CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640=y
    CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640_ENHANCED=y
    ----------------------------------
            The same config work beautifully with 2.2.X.

            Alan : I'm sorry to get your todo list longer than it need ;-(
            Regards,

            Jean

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