panic on shutdown bt for 2.4.26+ UML

any hints for where to look for a fix for this odd crash on shutdown?

i must admit, lately, i've been rather frustrated with the lack of either maintainance or backporting in the 2.4 UML series. of course this frustration is mostly because of my lack of ability to move forward past issues such as these. but also the UML web-site + blaise's + other patches out there along with all kinds of instructions on combinations on what to use....

the mechanisims UML uses, jmps ptrace and the like, are not terribly familar to generic programmers. Is there a UML: How it Works for Developers - document somewhere? or must we be so dedicated that we browse the mailing list archives and look for explainations piecemeal as responses to queries (as we've seen recently on the list)?

appoligies for any toes i'm stepping on here - i want to help - i just need help to get there...

(gdb) bt

#0  0x08161351 in kill ()
#1  0x0817d662 in raise ()
#2  0x0816163d in abort ()
#3  0x080dac3e in panic_coreonpanic (self=0x81fec3c, unused1=0,

unused2=0x8216d60) at um_arch.c:425
#4 0x0805e46a in notifier_call_chain (n=0x0, val=0, v=0x8216d60) at sys.c:148
#5 0x080533d9 in panic (fmt=0x81d1780 "switch_mm_skas - PTRACE_SWITCH_MM failed, errno = %d\n") at panic.c:77

#6  0x080dbf5a in switch_mm_skas (mm_fd=107) at process.c:353
#7  0x08050b17 in schedule () at mmu_context.h:29
#8  0x080d6d6e in cpu_idle () at process_kern.c:206
#9  0x0805047a in rest_init () at init/main.c:353

#10 0x080494e6 in start_kernel () at init/main.c:447
#11 0x080dc437 in start_kernel_proc (unused=0x0) at process_kern.c:179 #12 0x080d6979 in run_kernel_thread (fn=0x80dc410 <start_kernel_proc>, arg=0x0, jmp_ptr=0x81fec3c) at process.c:231
#13 0x080dc162 in new_thread_handler (sig=10) at process_kern.c:72 #14 <signal handler called>
#15 0x08161351 in kill ()
#16 0x08160fe5 in siglongjmp ()
#17 0x080dbdc1 in start_idle_thread (stack=0x81f0000, switch_buf_ptr=0x81f0578, fork_buf_ptr=0x0) at process.c:303 #18 0x080dc48a in start_uml_skas () at process_kern.c:193 #19 0x080daae3 in linux_main (argc=19, argv=0x30000000) at um_arch.c:393 #20 0x08050286 in main (argc=19, argv=0xbfffd0b4, envp=0xbfffd104) at arch/um/main.c:149
#21 0x08160d13 in __libc_start_main ()

--
db

On shutdown actually? Well, very strange.

Not a lot, sadly.

are you seeing this frequently? Have you updated to any 2.4.27 patch? There is IIRC a context switching bug fixed in them... On 2.6 there is a recent context switching fix from Bodo Stroesser (after 2.6.11) which I might look for...

Probably the simplest way is to say what regressions currently has UML/2.6, or the reasons you don't use it, so that we can help fixing it.

This is very strange... can you go to that stack frame and print local vars together with a listing of /proc/<UMLPID>/fd? I suspect a EBADF here...

Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
Skype user "PaoloGiarrusso"
Linux registered user n. 292729
http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade


	

	
		
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