nouveau, linux3.7-rc3: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffffffffff8

[Antonio Ospite]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 23:16:24 +0100
Antonio Ospite <ospite at studenti.unina.it> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am experiencing a bug with nouveau with linux-3.7-rc3 (and since rc1),
> my video adapter is the one integrated on the MSI M3N78-VM motherboard
> (hence x86_64):
> 
[...]
> [ 1943.858601] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffffffffff8
> [ 1943.858669] IP: [<ffffffffa031a67a>] nouveau_mm_head+0x30/0x127 [nouveau]
> [ 1943.858779] PGD 160d067 PUD 160e067 PMD 0 
> [ 1943.858803] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP 
[..]
> [ 1943.860018] Call Trace:
> [ 1943.860019]  [<ffffffff810fa13d>] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xbf/0xcf
> [ 1943.860019]  [<ffffffff81060f13>] ? should_resched+0x5/0x23
> [ 1943.860019]  [<ffffffffa032a10a>] ? nv50_fb_vram_new+0xc5/0x1f2 [nouveau]

Ben, I cannot reproduce the crash with 3.7-rc4, I spotted commits
a7dbf00 and 5cad16a which seem to be related to the problem I was
having; would you mind elaborating a bit about what you think was
causing the crash on my side? Maybe the chipset used on this motherboard
doesn't support some feature? And how did you figured out from the logs?

Thanks,
   Antonio

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