LineageOS 16.0 (v4.4.153) kernel with Halium 9 patches
[ Upstream commit ec4fbd64751de18729eaa816ec69e4b504b5a7a2 ] Dmitry reported a lockdep splat [1] (false positive) that we can fix by releasing the spinlock before calling icmp_send() from ip_expire() This is a false positive because sending an ICMP message can not possibly re-enter the IP frag engine. [1] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 4.10.0+ #29 Not tainted ------------------------------------------------------- modprobe/12392 is trying to acquire lock: (_xmit_ETHER#2){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff837a8182>] spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:299 [inline] (_xmit_ETHER#2){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff837a8182>] __netif_tx_lock include/linux/netdevice.h:3486 [inline] (_xmit_ETHER#2){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff837a8182>] sch_direct_xmit+0x282/0x6d0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:180 but task is already holding lock: (&(&q->lock)->rlock){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff8389a4d1>] spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:299 [inline] (&(&q->lock)->rlock){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff8389a4d1>] ip_expire+0x51/0x6c0 net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c:201 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #1 (&(&q->lock)->rlock){+.-...}: validate_chain kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2267 [inline] __lock_acquire+0x2149/0x3430 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3340 lock_acquire+0x2a1/0x630 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3755 __raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:142 [inline] _raw_spin_lock+0x33/0x50 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:151 spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:299 [inline] ip_defrag+0x3a2/0x4130 net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c:669 ip_check_defrag+0x4e3/0x8b0 net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c:713 packet_rcv_fanout+0x282/0x800 net/packet/af_packet.c:1459 deliver_skb net/core/dev.c:1834 [inline] dev_queue_xmit_nit+0x294/0xa90 net/core/dev.c:1890 xmit_one net/core/dev.c:2903 [inline] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x16b/0xab0 net/core/dev.c:2923 sch_direct_xmit+0x31f/0x6d0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:182 __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:3092 [inline] __dev_queue_xmit+0x13e5/0x1e60 net/core/dev.c:3358 dev_queue_xmit+0x17/0x20 net/core/dev.c:3423 neigh_resolve_output+0x6b9/0xb10 net/core/neighbour.c:1308 neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:478 [inline] ip_finish_output2+0x8b8/0x15a0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:228 ip_do_fragment+0x1d93/0x2720 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:672 ip_fragment.constprop.54+0x145/0x200 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:545 ip_finish_output+0x82d/0xe10 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:314 NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:246 [inline] ip_output+0x1f0/0x7a0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:404 dst_output include/net/dst.h:486 [inline] ip_local_out+0x95/0x170 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:124 ip_send_skb+0x3c/0xc0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1492 ip_push_pending_frames+0x64/0x80 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1512 raw_sendmsg+0x26de/0x3a00 net/ipv4/raw.c:655 inet_sendmsg+0x164/0x5b0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:761 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:633 [inline] sock_sendmsg+0xca/0x110 net/socket.c:643 ___sys_sendmsg+0x4a3/0x9f0 net/socket.c:1985 __sys_sendmmsg+0x25c/0x750 net/socket.c:2075 SYSC_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2106 [inline] SyS_sendmmsg+0x35/0x60 net/socket.c:2101 do_syscall_64+0x2e8/0x930 arch/x86/entry/common.c:281 return_from_SYSCALL_64+0x0/0x7a -> #0 (_xmit_ETHER#2){+.-...}: check_prev_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1830 [inline] check_prevs_add+0xa8f/0x19f0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1940 validate_chain kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2267 [inline] __lock_acquire+0x2149/0x3430 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3340 lock_acquire+0x2a1/0x630 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3755 __raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:142 [inline] _raw_spin_lock+0x33/0x50 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:151 spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:299 [inline] __netif_tx_lock include/linux/netdevice.h:3486 [inline] sch_direct_xmit+0x282/0x6d0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:180 __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:3092 [inline] __dev_queue_xmit+0x13e5/0x1e60 net/core/dev.c:3358 dev_queue_xmit+0x17/0x20 net/core/dev.c:3423 neigh_hh_output include/net/neighbour.h:468 [inline] neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:476 [inline] ip_finish_output2+0xf6c/0x15a0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:228 ip_finish_output+0xa29/0xe10 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:316 NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:246 [inline] ip_output+0x1f0/0x7a0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:404 dst_output include/net/dst.h:486 [inline] ip_local_out+0x95/0x170 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:124 ip_send_skb+0x3c/0xc0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1492 ip_push_pending_frames+0x64/0x80 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1512 icmp_push_reply+0x372/0x4d0 net/ipv4/icmp.c:394 icmp_send+0x156c/0x1c80 net/ipv4/icmp.c:754 ip_expire+0x40e/0x6c0 net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c:239 call_timer_fn+0x241/0x820 kernel/time/timer.c:1268 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1307 [inline] __run_timers+0x960/0xcf0 kernel/time/timer.c:1601 run_timer_softirq+0x21/0x80 kernel/time/timer.c:1614 __do_softirq+0x31f/0xbe7 kernel/softirq.c:284 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:364 [inline] irq_exit+0x1cc/0x200 kernel/softirq.c:405 exiting_irq arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h:657 [inline] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x76/0xa0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:962 apic_timer_interrupt+0x93/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:707 __read_once_size include/linux/compiler.h:254 [inline] atomic_read arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:26 [inline] rcu_dynticks_curr_cpu_in_eqs kernel/rcu/tree.c:350 [inline] __rcu_is_watching kernel/rcu/tree.c:1133 [inline] rcu_is_watching+0x83/0x110 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1147 rcu_read_lock_held+0x87/0xc0 kernel/rcu/update.c:293 radix_tree_deref_slot include/linux/radix-tree.h:238 [inline] filemap_map_pages+0x6d4/0x1570 mm/filemap.c:2335 do_fault_around mm/memory.c:3231 [inline] do_read_fault mm/memory.c:3265 [inline] do_fault+0xbd5/0x2080 mm/memory.c:3370 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:3600 [inline] __handle_mm_fault+0x1062/0x2cb0 mm/memory.c:3714 handle_mm_fault+0x1e2/0x480 mm/memory.c:3751 __do_page_fault+0x4f6/0xb60 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1397 do_page_fault+0x54/0x70 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1460 page_fault+0x28/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:1011 other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(&(&q->lock)->rlock); lock(_xmit_ETHER#2); lock(&(&q->lock)->rlock); lock(_xmit_ETHER#2); *** DEADLOCK *** 10 locks held by modprobe/12392: #0: (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<ffffffff81329758>] __do_page_fault+0x2b8/0xb60 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1336 #1: (rcu_read_lock){......}, at: [<ffffffff8188cab6>] filemap_map_pages+0x1e6/0x1570 mm/filemap.c:2324 #2: (&(ptlock_ptr(page))->rlock#2){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff81984a78>] spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:299 [inline] #2: (&(ptlock_ptr(page))->rlock#2){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff81984a78>] pte_alloc_one_map mm/memory.c:2944 [inline] #2: (&(ptlock_ptr(page))->rlock#2){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff81984a78>] alloc_set_pte+0x13b8/0x1b90 mm/memory.c:3072 #3: (((&q->timer))){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff81627e72>] lockdep_copy_map include/linux/lockdep.h:175 [inline] #3: (((&q->timer))){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff81627e72>] call_timer_fn+0x1c2/0x820 kernel/time/timer.c:1258 #4: (&(&q->lock)->rlock){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff8389a4d1>] spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:299 [inline] #4: (&(&q->lock)->rlock){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff8389a4d1>] ip_expire+0x51/0x6c0 net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c:201 #5: (rcu_read_lock){......}, at: [<ffffffff8389a633>] ip_expire+0x1b3/0x6c0 net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c:216 #6: (slock-AF_INET){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff839b3313>] spin_trylock include/linux/spinlock.h:309 [inline] #6: (slock-AF_INET){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff839b3313>] icmp_xmit_lock net/ipv4/icmp.c:219 [inline] #6: (slock-AF_INET){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff839b3313>] icmp_send+0x803/0x1c80 net/ipv4/icmp.c:681 #7: (rcu_read_lock_bh){......}, at: [<ffffffff838ab9a1>] ip_finish_output2+0x2c1/0x15a0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:198 #8: (rcu_read_lock_bh){......}, at: [<ffffffff836d1dee>] __dev_queue_xmit+0x23e/0x1e60 net/core/dev.c:3324 #9: (dev->qdisc_running_key ?: &qdisc_running_key){+.....}, at: [<ffffffff836d3a27>] dev_queue_xmit+0x17/0x20 net/core/dev.c:3423 stack backtrace: CPU: 0 PID: 12392 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 4.10.0+ #29 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 Call Trace: <IRQ> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:16 [inline] dump_stack+0x2ee/0x3ef lib/dump_stack.c:52 print_circular_bug+0x307/0x3b0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1204 check_prev_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1830 [inline] check_prevs_add+0xa8f/0x19f0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1940 validate_chain kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2267 [inline] __lock_acquire+0x2149/0x3430 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3340 lock_acquire+0x2a1/0x630 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3755 __raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:142 [inline] _raw_spin_lock+0x33/0x50 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:151 spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:299 [inline] __netif_tx_lock include/linux/netdevice.h:3486 [inline] sch_direct_xmit+0x282/0x6d0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:180 __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:3092 [inline] __dev_queue_xmit+0x13e5/0x1e60 net/core/dev.c:3358 dev_queue_xmit+0x17/0x20 net/core/dev.c:3423 neigh_hh_output include/net/neighbour.h:468 [inline] neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:476 [inline] ip_finish_output2+0xf6c/0x15a0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:228 ip_finish_output+0xa29/0xe10 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:316 NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:246 [inline] ip_output+0x1f0/0x7a0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:404 dst_output include/net/dst.h:486 [inline] ip_local_out+0x95/0x170 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:124 ip_send_skb+0x3c/0xc0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1492 ip_push_pending_frames+0x64/0x80 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1512 icmp_push_reply+0x372/0x4d0 net/ipv4/icmp.c:394 icmp_send+0x156c/0x1c80 net/ipv4/icmp.c:754 ip_expire+0x40e/0x6c0 net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c:239 call_timer_fn+0x241/0x820 kernel/time/timer.c:1268 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1307 [inline] __run_timers+0x960/0xcf0 kernel/time/timer.c:1601 run_timer_softirq+0x21/0x80 kernel/time/timer.c:1614 __do_softirq+0x31f/0xbe7 kernel/softirq.c:284 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:364 [inline] irq_exit+0x1cc/0x200 kernel/softirq.c:405 exiting_irq arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h:657 [inline] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x76/0xa0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:962 apic_timer_interrupt+0x93/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:707 RIP: 0010:__read_once_size include/linux/compiler.h:254 [inline] RIP: 0010:atomic_read arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:26 [inline] RIP: 0010:rcu_dynticks_curr_cpu_in_eqs kernel/rcu/tree.c:350 [inline] RIP: 0010:__rcu_is_watching kernel/rcu/tree.c:1133 [inline] RIP: 0010:rcu_is_watching+0x83/0x110 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1147 RSP: 0000:ffff8801c391f120 EFLAGS: 00000a03 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff10 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff8801c391f148 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000055edd4374000 RDI: ffff8801dbe1ae0c RBP: ffff8801c391f1a0 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 1ffff10038723e25 R13: ffff8801dbe1ae00 R14: ffff8801c391f680 R15: dffffc0000000000 </IRQ> rcu_read_lock_held+0x87/0xc0 kernel/rcu/update.c:293 radix_tree_deref_slot include/linux/radix-tree.h:238 [inline] filemap_map_pages+0x6d4/0x1570 mm/filemap.c:2335 do_fault_around mm/memory.c:3231 [inline] do_read_fault mm/memory.c:3265 [inline] do_fault+0xbd5/0x2080 mm/memory.c:3370 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:3600 [inline] __handle_mm_fault+0x1062/0x2cb0 mm/memory.c:3714 handle_mm_fault+0x1e2/0x480 mm/memory.c:3751 __do_page_fault+0x4f6/0xb60 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1397 do_page_fault+0x54/0x70 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1460 page_fault+0x28/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:1011 RIP: 0033:0x7f83172f2786 RSP: 002b:00007fffe859ae80 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: 000055edd4373040 RBX: 00007f83175111c8 RCX: 000055edd4373238 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00007f8317510970 RBP: 00007fffe859afd0 R08: 0000000000000009 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000064 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 000055edd4373040 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007fffe859afe8 R15: 0000000000000000 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
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DOCUMENTATION: - There is a lot of documentation available both in electronic form on the Internet and in books, both Linux-specific and pertaining to general UNIX questions. I'd recommend looking into the documentation subdirectories on any Linux FTP site for the LDP (Linux Documentation Project) books. This README is not meant to be documentation on the system: there are much better sources available. - There are various README files in the Documentation/ subdirectory: these typically contain kernel-specific installation notes for some drivers for example. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Changes file, as it contains information about the problems, which may result by upgrading your kernel. - The Documentation/DocBook/ subdirectory contains several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats: PostScript (.ps), PDF, HTML, & man-pages, among others. 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You can read more on this in Documentation/applying-patches.txt Alternatively, the script patch-kernel can be used to automate this process. It determines the current kernel version and applies any patches found. linux/scripts/patch-kernel linux The first argument in the command above is the location of the kernel source. Patches are applied from the current directory, but an alternative directory can be specified as the second argument. - Make sure you have no stale .o files and dependencies lying around: cd linux make mrproper You should now have the sources correctly installed. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS Compiling and running the 4.x kernels requires up-to-date versions of various software packages. Consult Documentation/Changes for the minimum version numbers required and how to get updates for these packages. 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The kernel will detect this on bootup, and give up. - A kernel with math-emulation compiled in will still use the coprocessor if one is present: the math emulation will just never get used in that case. The kernel will be slightly larger, but will work on different machines regardless of whether they have a math coprocessor or not. - The "kernel hacking" configuration details usually result in a bigger or slower kernel (or both), and can even make the kernel less stable by configuring some routines to actively try to break bad code to find kernel problems (kmalloc()). Thus you should probably answer 'n' to the questions for "development", "experimental", or "debugging" features. COMPILING the kernel: - Make sure you have at least gcc 3.2 available. For more information, refer to Documentation/Changes. Please note that you can still run a.out user programs with this kernel. - Do a "make" to create a compressed kernel image. It is also possible to do "make install" if you have lilo installed to suit the kernel makefiles, but you may want to check your particular lilo setup first. To do the actual install, you have to be root, but none of the normal build should require that. Don't take the name of root in vain. - If you configured any of the parts of the kernel as `modules', you will also have to do "make modules_install". - Verbose kernel compile/build output: Normally, the kernel build system runs in a fairly quiet mode (but not totally silent). However, sometimes you or other kernel developers need to see compile, link, or other commands exactly as they are executed. For this, use "verbose" build mode. This is done by inserting "V=1" in the "make" command. E.g.: make V=1 all To have the build system also tell the reason for the rebuild of each target, use "V=2". The default is "V=0". - Keep a backup kernel handy in case something goes wrong. This is especially true for the development releases, since each new release contains new code which has not been debugged. Make sure you keep a backup of the modules corresponding to that kernel, as well. If you are installing a new kernel with the same version number as your working kernel, make a backup of your modules directory before you do a "make modules_install". Alternatively, before compiling, use the kernel config option "LOCALVERSION" to append a unique suffix to the regular kernel version. LOCALVERSION can be set in the "General Setup" menu. - In order to boot your new kernel, you'll need to copy the kernel image (e.g. .../linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage after compilation) to the place where your regular bootable kernel is found. - Booting a kernel directly from a floppy without the assistance of a bootloader such as LILO, is no longer supported. If you boot Linux from the hard drive, chances are you use LILO, which uses the kernel image as specified in the file /etc/lilo.conf. The kernel image file is usually /vmlinuz, /boot/vmlinuz, /bzImage or /boot/bzImage. To use the new kernel, save a copy of the old image and copy the new image over the old one. Then, you MUST RERUN LILO to update the loading map!! If you don't, you won't be able to boot the new kernel image. Reinstalling LILO is usually a matter of running /sbin/lilo. You may wish to edit /etc/lilo.conf to specify an entry for your old kernel image (say, /vmlinux.old) in case the new one does not work. See the LILO docs for more information. After reinstalling LILO, you should be all set. Shutdown the system, reboot, and enjoy! If you ever need to change the default root device, video mode, ramdisk size, etc. in the kernel image, use the 'rdev' program (or alternatively the LILO boot options when appropriate). No need to recompile the kernel to change these parameters. - Reboot with the new kernel and enjoy. IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG: - If you have problems that seem to be due to kernel bugs, please check the file MAINTAINERS to see if there is a particular person associated with the part of the kernel that you are having trouble with. If there isn't anyone listed there, then the second best thing is to mail them to me (torvalds@linux-foundation.org), and possibly to any other relevant mailing-list or to the newsgroup. - In all bug-reports, *please* tell what kernel you are talking about, how to duplicate the problem, and what your setup is (use your common sense). If the problem is new, tell me so, and if the problem is old, please try to tell me when you first noticed it. - If the bug results in a message like unable to handle kernel paging request at address C0000010 Oops: 0002 EIP: 0010:XXXXXXXX eax: xxxxxxxx ebx: xxxxxxxx ecx: xxxxxxxx edx: xxxxxxxx esi: xxxxxxxx edi: xxxxxxxx ebp: xxxxxxxx ds: xxxx es: xxxx fs: xxxx gs: xxxx Pid: xx, process nr: xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx or similar kernel debugging information on your screen or in your system log, please duplicate it *exactly*. The dump may look incomprehensible to you, but it does contain information that may help debugging the problem. The text above the dump is also important: it tells something about why the kernel dumped code (in the above example, it's due to a bad kernel pointer). More information on making sense of the dump is in Documentation/oops-tracing.txt - If you compiled the kernel with CONFIG_KALLSYMS you can send the dump as is, otherwise you will have to use the "ksymoops" program to make sense of the dump (but compiling with CONFIG_KALLSYMS is usually preferred). This utility can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/ksymoops/ . Alternatively, you can do the dump lookup by hand: - In debugging dumps like the above, it helps enormously if you can look up what the EIP value means. The hex value as such doesn't help me or anybody else very much: it will depend on your particular kernel setup. What you should do is take the hex value from the EIP line (ignore the "0010:"), and look it up in the kernel namelist to see which kernel function contains the offending address. To find out the kernel function name, you'll need to find the system binary associated with the kernel that exhibited the symptom. This is the file 'linux/vmlinux'. To extract the namelist and match it against the EIP from the kernel crash, do: nm vmlinux | sort | less This will give you a list of kernel addresses sorted in ascending order, from which it is simple to find the function that contains the offending address. Note that the address given by the kernel debugging messages will not necessarily match exactly with the function addresses (in fact, that is very unlikely), so you can't just 'grep' the list: the list will, however, give you the starting point of each kernel function, so by looking for the function that has a starting address lower than the one you are searching for but is followed by a function with a higher address you will find the one you want. In fact, it may be a good idea to include a bit of "context" in your problem report, giving a few lines around the interesting one. If you for some reason cannot do the above (you have a pre-compiled kernel image or similar), telling me as much about your setup as possible will help. Please read the REPORTING-BUGS document for details. - Alternatively, you can use gdb on a running kernel. (read-only; i.e. you cannot change values or set break points.) To do this, first compile the kernel with -g; edit arch/i386/Makefile appropriately, then do a "make clean". You'll also need to enable CONFIG_PROC_FS (via "make config"). After you've rebooted with the new kernel, do "gdb vmlinux /proc/kcore". You can now use all the usual gdb commands. The command to look up the point where your system crashed is "l *0xXXXXXXXX". (Replace the XXXes with the EIP value.) gdb'ing a non-running kernel currently fails because gdb (wrongly) disregards the starting offset for which the kernel is compiled.