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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
	Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-git8 kernel oops at __rb_rotate_left+0x7/0x70
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:46:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071016094631.GA10649@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071016091012.GB24341@elte.hu>


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > While running kernbench with the 2.6.23-git8 following oops is 
> > produced
> > 
> > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010 RIP: 
> >  [<ffffffff8033f347>] __rb_rotate_left+0x7/0x70
> 
> that looks nasty ...
> 
> and -git8 should have the v2.6.23 scheduler code in essence.

ah, this is likely with the recent scheduler commits included as well, 
right?

if it's reproducable, could you try with group scheduling disabled, i.e. 
with:

  # CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is not set

as that would be the main suspect for such type of a crash.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-16  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-16  5:25 [BUG] 2.6.23-git8 kernel oops at __rb_rotate_left+0x7/0x70 Kamalesh Babulal
2007-10-16  9:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-16  9:46   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-10-16 18:00     ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-10-16 18:42       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-10-17  9:07       ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-10-16 10:03   ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-10-17 14:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-17 14:43   ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-10-17 15:00   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-10-17 14:52     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-17 15:29       ` Andy Whitcroft

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