On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 14:51 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Bj=C3=B6rn Steinbrink wrote:
> >
> > I can't reproduce the bug on my UP box and currently can't afford
> > crashing my SMP box (all the oopses seem to come from SMP kernels, so I
> > guess it needs SMP to crash), so while this doesn't show any new
> > problems, I can't tell whether it actually fixes anything. Testers
> > welcome!

Odd, I can reproduce trivially on UP. The patch definitely helps.

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> Ok, I applied this because I will do an -rc8 today or tomorrow, but I=20
> really really hope somebody can figure out what made this all start to=20
> trigger.

Unfortunately, I can't even bisect, I just tried compiling 2.6.25-rc1
and it failed to link because of __udivi3, __umodi3 and another one (or
similar). A quick look failed to tell me why I get that with -rc1 and
-rc2 but not -rc7.

Below is a simple test program. Run it on any event device, then rmmod
the module the device belongs to and abort the program with ctrl-c.

johannes

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <linux/input.h>

int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
	int fd;

	if (argc < 2) {
		printf("Usage: grab /dev/input/eventX\n");
		printf("Where X =3D input device number\n");
		exit(1);
	}

	if ((fd =3D open(argv[argc - 1], O_RDONLY)) < 0) {
		perror("grab[open]");
		exit(1);
	}

	if (ioctl(fd, EVIOCGRAB, 1)) {
		perror("grab[EVIOCGRAB]");
		exit(1);
	}

	printf("interrupt to exit\n");

	while (1)
		sleep(1000);
}