From: Luis Henriques <henrix@sapo.pt>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
mark.langsdorf@amd.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG -tip] unable to handle kernel paging request
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:55:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090427165511.GA4801@hades.domain.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49F57030.3010802@siemens.com>
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:43:28AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > I believe my problem has finally been solved by commit
> > 888d256e9c565cb61505bd218eb37c81fe77a325 in kvm git tree. Basically, the kvm
> > notifier for the cpufreq was not being unregistered when kvm module was
> > unloaded and, thus, when notifier_call_chain invoked the handler for the kvm,
> > there was a NULL pointer there.
> >
> > Does this make sense to everybody?
>
> If your system unloads the kvm modules on shutdown/reboot: yes, would
> make sense.
Yes, I am using kvm modules and these modules are indeed unloaded on shutdown.
So, I believe this is what caused the bug I reported -- Although I initially
though it was related with the powernow-k8 module.
Regards,
--
Luis Henriques
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-27 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-13 16:59 [BUG -tip] unable to handle kernel paging request Luis Henriques
2009-04-13 20:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-23 18:24 ` Luis Henriques
2009-04-27 8:43 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-04-27 16:55 ` Luis Henriques [this message]
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