Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1

[Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>]

Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> writes:

> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 11:07 +0100, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> > > Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
> > > 
> > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc3/2.6.11-rc3-mm1/
> > > 
> > > It gives me a kernel panic at boot if I have CONFIG_FB_RADEON
> > > enabled. If I also have CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE enabled, I get this
> > > output:
> > > 
> > >         Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
> > >         ...
> > >         PREEMPT
> > >         ...
> > >         EIP is a strncpy_from_user+0x33/0x47
> > >         ...
> > >         Call Trace:
> > >          getname+0x69/0xa5
> > >          sys_open+0x12/0xc6
> > >          sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x75
> > >         ...
> > >         Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> > > 
> > > If I don't have CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE enabled, I get a screen
> > > with random junk and some blinking colored boxes, and the machine
> > > hangs.
> > 
> > That's very strange... I don't see what in radeonfb could cause this.
> > Just in case, can you try commenting out the call to radeon_pm_init() in
> > radeon_base.c, see if it makes any difference (though I don't think so).
> 
> No, it didn't make any difference.

I found the if I disable CONFIG_INOTIFY, the problem goes away.

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