From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, ebiederm@xmission.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yanmin.zhang@intel.com,
neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au
Subject: Re: + proc-dont-lock-task_structs-indefinitely-cpuset-fix-2.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 23:42:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060301234215.62010fec.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060301221429.c61b4ae6.pj@sgi.com>
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> > It'd be interesting to see if just the data structure expansion:
>
> Nice guess.
>
> It still crashes on boot.
>
OK. This is awful. I cannot see it.
If someone passes get_cpu_sysdev() a -ve cpu number then ugly things will
happen, but it's unlikely to be that. Pretty sad coding though.
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference (address 0000000000000058)
> ...
> ip is at sysfs_create_group+0x30/0x2a0
Are you able to determine which pointer deref this is faulting at? I
couldn't find any fields which look like they're 0x58 bytes into anything.
Thanks for persisting with this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-02 7:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200603010120.k211KqVP009559@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
2006-03-01 2:18 ` + proc-dont-lock-task_structs-indefinitely-cpuset-fix-2.patch added to -mm tree Paul Jackson
2006-03-01 2:36 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-01 3:45 ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-01 4:10 ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-01 5:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-01 5:25 ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-01 6:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-01 6:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-01 7:20 ` [PATCH] proc: Reference couting fix Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-01 7:26 ` [PATCH] proc: task_mmu bug fix Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-01 7:46 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-01 12:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-01 13:14 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-01 13:15 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-03-01 18:33 ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-01 7:48 ` + proc-dont-lock-task_structs-indefinitely-cpuset-fix-2.patch added to -mm tree Paul Jackson
2006-03-01 8:26 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-01 8:39 ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-01 9:53 ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-01 10:02 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-01 10:14 ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-01 10:11 ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-01 10:31 ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-01 19:21 ` Greg KH
2006-03-01 20:58 ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-01 21:30 ` Greg KH
2006-03-01 22:26 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-01 22:50 ` Greg KH
2006-03-01 23:20 ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-01 23:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-02 0:10 ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-02 0:35 ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-01 23:10 ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-01 23:40 ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-02 4:20 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-02 6:14 ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-02 7:42 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-03-02 19:12 ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-02 21:52 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-03 6:33 ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-03 6:44 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-01 4:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-01 4:58 ` Paul Jackson
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