OOPS in Kmalloc

hello randy
as i am new to kernel level programing
i do not know how to decode a oops . could you tell me how to do it i will mail the exact oops messages in next mail
right now i am debugging by using printk only

raman
"Randy.Dunlap" wrote:

> Hello,
> i am getting OOPS in Kmalloc .
>
> void **data;
> qset = 1000;
>
> dptr->data = kmalloc(qset * sizeof(char *), GFP_KERNEL); >
> what could the possible the cause of the error
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As I am so fond of saying, it's almost always correct to indicate what kernel version one if referring to in a problem report.

Please decode the oops output and post it here.

~Randy

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From: ramands <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:15:06PM +0530

read the (copious) documentation in /usr/src/linux/Documentation

no need for that, read the docs first.

Good luck,
Jurriaan

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Debian (Unstable) GNU/Linux 2.5.68 3940 bogomips load av: 0.10 0.05 0.06

| ; Hello,
| ; i am getting OOPS in Kmalloc .
| ;
| ; void **data;
| ; qset = 1000;
| ;
| ; dptr->data = kmalloc(qset * sizeof(char *), GFP_KERNEL);
| ;
| ; what could the possible the cause of the error
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| As I am so fond of saying, it's almost always correct to indicate what
| kernel version one if referring to in a problem report.
| 
| Please decode the oops output and post it here.

I can't reproduce this problem on Linux 2.5.68. However, I did initialize dptr before using it. Did you?

You see, I can't tell if you did or not because you didn't post a complete sample to reproduce the problem.

--
~Randy