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From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Taner Halicioglu <taner@taner.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test7 oops in proc_pid_stat
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:28:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031010072838.GA17401@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200310092204.h99M4Ro28540@mail.osdl.org>

 On Thu, Oct 09, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Olaf Hering wrote:
> > 
> > Linux version 2.6.0-test7 (olaf@zert152) (gcc version 3.2.2) #2 SMP Thu
> > Oct 9 08:49:29 CEST 2003
> > 
> > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
> 0000003c
> 
> Ok, this seems to be due to the move of the job control fields from
> the task structure to the signal structure.
> 
> That looks like a bad idea, and the best thing to do is likely to just
> revert the whole thing.

I have reverted these two patches and fixed the reject in sched.h, no
oops since 9 hours.

# 03/10/05      akpm@osdl.org[torvalds] 1.1451.4.16
# [PATCH] move job control fields from task_struct to

# 03/10/05      akpm@osdl.org[torvalds] 1.1451.4.17
# [PATCH] fix "compat ioctl consolidation" for "move job

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-10  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-09 13:04 2.6.0-test7 oops in proc_pid_stat Olaf Hering
2003-10-09 22:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-10-10  6:50   ` 2.6.0-test7 DEBUG_PAGEALLOC oops Mike Galbraith
2003-10-10 16:52     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-10-11  7:01       ` Mike Galbraith
2003-10-11  7:03         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-10-10  7:28   ` Olaf Hering [this message]

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