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Bug#595187: linux-2.6: lots of OOPses on resume (NULL pointer dereference in file_ra_state_init)



On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 17:05 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 12:10:09AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 12:27 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> > > Package: linux-2.6
> > > Version: 2.6.32-21
> > > 
> > > i'm experiencing very similar issues, although also with earlier versions of
> > > linux-image-2.6.32-5-686.
> > > 
> > > i first started having this problem after upgrading to squeeze from lenny,
> > > although i was running the exact same linux-image-2.6.32-* directly on lenny
> > > for quite some time without problems. 
> > > 
> > > i had been using uswsusp, but after experiencing this problem several times, i
> > > purged uswsusp and switched to using the in-kernel resume with pm-hibernate.
> > [...]
> > 
> > And did that make any difference?
> 
> heh. sorry for being unclear :)
> 
> unfortunately, no, it's still Oops'ing after resume.
> 
> i also didn't mention, largely because i'm pretty unsure if it's really the
> case, but the issue *seems* to occur more reliably when hibernating (to disk)
> while on battery, but i'm really unsure of that.
> 
> i'll see if i can more reliably trigger the same problem on a clean squeeze
> install on the same hardware in another partition... where i'm not as worried
> about crashing.

Please add 'memory_corruption_check=1' to the kernel parameters and
report whether that fixes the problem and whether it results in any new
log messages.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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