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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Subject: Re: i915_driver_irq_handler - BUG: NULL pointer dereference
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:03:30 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0907221500160.2813@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090722084424.GA3507@tycho.redhat.com>



On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, John Kacur wrote:

> Hello Thomas et al
> 
> I'm still seeing this sometimes, in this case during shutdown with the experimental rt kernel
> based off of 2.6.31-rc3
> 
> The system is going down for reboot NOW!
> Disabling monthly Smolt update: [  OK  ]
> Shutting down Avahi daemon: [drm:gm45_get_vblank_counter] *ERROR* trying to get1
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000084
> IP: [<ffffffffa05df8ef>] i915_driver_irq_handler+0x848/0x8e9 [i915]

So it crashes in the i915 interrupt handler. Smells like a
synchronization problem on shutdown which is exposed by the threaded
handler.

Dave, any idea ?

Thanks,

	tglx

      reply	other threads:[~2009-07-22 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-22  8:44 i915_driver_irq_handler - BUG: NULL pointer dereference John Kacur
2009-07-22 13:03 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]

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