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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Markus Rehbach <markus.rehbach@gmx.de>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc6: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:25:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080328102535.GD633@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0803280246530.3955@sheep.housecafe.de>


* Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> I had a lengthy bug decoding session with Ingo and we found the root
>> cause:
>> A dropped workaround for the prefetch bug in early X2s and
>> Opterons. Patch below.
>
> Although I reported it, I could not repoduce the bug. Anyway, I've 
> applied your patch to -rc7 and no BUG so far :)

yeah, the condition would normally be very sporadic and it can easily 
depend on a specific layout of your kernel image, etc.

the (updated) fix is in Linus' latest git tree as well, and in 
x86.git/latest.

	Ingo

      reply	other threads:[~2008-03-28 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-25 23:08 2.6.25-rc6: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference Christian Kujau
2008-03-26  6:33 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-26 21:56   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-26 23:57   ` Christian Kujau
2008-03-27 15:20   ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-27 15:26     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-27 18:30     ` Markus Rehbach
2008-03-27 19:26       ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-27 23:50     ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-03-28  8:50       ` Christian Kujau
2008-03-28  1:46     ` Christian Kujau
2008-03-28 10:25       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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