From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753010AbZIAHOy (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Sep 2009 03:14:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752870AbZIAHOx (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Sep 2009 03:14:53 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:43745 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751178AbZIAHOw (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Sep 2009 03:14:52 -0400 Message-ID: <4A9CC9E9.2070609@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:14:49 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Meelis Roos CC: David Miller , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel list Subject: Re: boot panic after oops from sysfs_new_dirent References: <20090831.142215.111904849.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:14:52 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Meelis Roos wrote: >>> I powered on my 6-CPU E3000 after a summer pause and tried todays >>> 2.6.31-rc8+git on it. It fails - first it spills lots of warnings about >>> percpu things, then oopses in sysfs_new_dirent and then panics. > > Bisecting shows that there may be different crashes, like in > 56513ed50cc8a5c184a3f347e81d74c850cc14fa below: Yeah, I was trying to fix that one with 74d46d6b2d23d44d72c37df4c6a5d2e782f7b088 and it seemingly fixed it on my machine. Apparently broken on yours. Are the errors different before and after 74d46d6b2d? Thanks. -- tejun