From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@free.fr>,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000002
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:56:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080729065635.27630e33@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080729120911.GI30344@one.firstfloor.org>
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:09:11 +0200
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:22:15AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 00:26 +0200, Frederik Deweerdt wrote:
> > > Hello Aneesh,
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 03:23:17PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > > > [ 163.378265] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
> > > > dereference at 00000002 [ 163.378276] IP: [<c0124933>]
> > > > sched_power_savings_store+0x13/0x70
> > >
> > > Does the attached patch solve the problem?
> >
> > Patch seems to have missed the boat for rc1 too.
>
> Hmm. I'll resend.
>
> BTW i think it's clearly a bug that distributions are even accessing
> that file. It doesn't make any sense in the context they are using
> it (like at every boot).
it's a power saving feature that they very likely turn on by default...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-29 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-25 9:53 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000002 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-07-28 22:26 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2008-07-29 4:22 ` Mike Galbraith
2008-07-29 12:09 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-29 13:56 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-07-29 14:53 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-29 15:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-29 16:31 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-29 17:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-29 17:50 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-30 9:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-30 9:26 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 16:31 ` Greg KH
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