From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932188AbWDYKsU (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 06:48:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932187AbWDYKsU (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 06:48:20 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:33675 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932188AbWDYKsT (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 06:48:19 -0400 Subject: Re: Bug while executing : cat /proc/iomem on 2.6.17-rc1/rc2 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Sachin Sant Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <444DFD53.2000108@in.ibm.com> References: <444DFD53.2000108@in.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:48:16 +0200 Message-Id: <1145962096.3114.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 16:13 +0530, Sachin Sant wrote: > I found this following problem while executing cat/proc/iomem. The > command causes following BUG. > > x236:/linux-2.6.17-rc1/fs # cat /proc/iomem > Segmentation fault this tends to be a driver bug; could you compile all the drivers you need as module, and then try to not load them as much as possible. See if it still crashes, if not, load the rest one at a time until it crashes, and then you've found the culprit :)