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From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>,
	lee.schermerhorn@hp.com
Subject: Re: [crash, -git] NULL pointer dereference, IP: [<c0190884>] page_cgroup_zoneinfo+0xf/0x1b
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:48:44 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48FDB38C.4000203@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48FDB23D.6080603@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

>>  nr of bisection commits: 14
>>  ----------------------------
>>  656eb2c: add CONFIG_CORE_DUMP_DEFAULT_ELF_HEADERS
>>  6409324: coredump: format_corename: don't append .%pid if  multi-threaded
>>  b747c8c: make ptrace_untrace() static
>>  c459643: bitmask: remove bitmap_scnprintf_len()
>>  30e8e13: cpuset: use seq_*mask_* to print masks
>>  3eda201: seq_file: add seq_cpumask_list(), seq_nodemask_list()
>>  85dd030: seq_file: don't call bitmap_scnprintf_len()
>>  40b6a76: cpuset.c: remove extra variable
>>  52d4b9a: memcg: allocate all page_cgroup at boot

The bug should be introduced by this patch.

>>  c05555b: memcg: atomic ops for page_cgroup->flags
>>  addb9ef: memcg: optimize per-cpu statistics
>>  5b4e655: memcg: avoid accounting special pages
>>  b7abea9: memcg: make page->mapping NULL before uncharge
>>  073e587: memcg: move charge swapin under lock
>>
>> i'll poke in the middle - maybe i'm lucky and can find a 
>> working/crashing tree to nudge the bisection back into life.
> 
> Hi, Ingo,
> 
> Li Zefan has reported this problem and Kamezawa is looking into it.

Yes, but seems a bit tough...

> I am unwell,
> I hope to look into the problem when I feel better or at-least in the intervals
> of time that I feel better.
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-21 10:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-21 10:09 [crash, -git] NULL pointer dereference, IP: [<c0190884>] page_cgroup_zoneinfo+0xf/0x1b Ingo Molnar
2008-10-21 10:21 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-10-21 10:38   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-21 10:43     ` Balbir Singh
2008-10-21 10:48       ` Li Zefan [this message]

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