From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754819AbYFKTnZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:43:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751334AbYFKTnR (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:43:17 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:56218 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751332AbYFKTnQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:43:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:43:03 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Vegard Nossum" Cc: kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.26-rc5-mm2 - kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:388! Message-Id: <20080611124303.017b853e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0806111112w5a6ed080jc098612806398828@mail.gmail.com> References: <19f34abd0806111112w5a6ed080jc098612806398828@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:12:04 +0200 "Vegard Nossum" wrote: > On 6/9/08, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > > > The 2.6.26-rc5-mm2 kernel panic's, while booting up on the x86_64 > > box with the attached .config file. > > (Please apologize for the strange way of replying to this message. It > seems that LKML gave up delivering to my address, so I'm currently > reading off lkml.org.) > > This should already be fixed, but Andrew refused to apply the patch > before releasing the -mm1 (and -mm2 apparently). a) nobody ever sent it to me and b) I was told about it too late to be able to go work out what tree it was in, cherrypick it then merge it. > I'm attaching the > patch, can you see if it helps? hallelujah, thanks. I already fished it out of linux-next. I'm still hanging onto the 2.6.26-rc5-mm1 origin.patch and linux-next.patch because I'm desperately trying to get things vaguely stabilised so some VM testing can happen.