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From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	athorlton@sgi.com, CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: BUG: tick device NULL pointer during system initialization and shutdown
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:50:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51CA2CBF.70404@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1306241551020.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de>



On 06/24/2013 09:57 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> 
>> Similar panics reported during bringup here:
>>
>> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-May/166205.html
>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/8/342
>>
>> I've seen this a few times on 3.10 based kernels.
>>
>> [  175.842027] Disabling non-boot CPUs ...
>> [  475.827017] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
>> 0000000000000048
> 
> That looks like a stale bit in tick_broadcast_force_mask.
> 
> Does the patch below fix it?
>

Thomas,

Thanks for the patch.

The reproducibility appears to be quite low.  I'm seeing this roughly 1 time
every six hours of continuous system reboots.  I'm testing right now with your
patch.  I'll update the thread in a couple of days...

P.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-25 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-18 18:46 BUG: tick device NULL pointer during system initialization and shutdown Prarit Bhargava
2013-06-24 13:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-06-25 23:50   ` Prarit Bhargava [this message]
2013-06-26 11:05     ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-06-27 17:04       ` Prarit Bhargava
2013-06-28 10:52         ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-01 13:07           ` Prarit Bhargava
2013-07-01 13:30             ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-01 15:41               ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-07-08 13:04               ` Prarit Bhargava
2013-07-02 12:31       ` [tip:timers/core] tick: Make oneshot broadcast robust vs. CPU offlining tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner

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