Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Mar 2006 23:42:15 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: + proc-dont-lock-task_structs-indefinitely-cpuset-fix-2.patch added to -mm tree |
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Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote: > > > It'd be interesting to see if just the data structure expansion: > > Nice guess. > > It still crashes on boot. >
OK. This is awful. I cannot see it.
If someone passes get_cpu_sysdev() a -ve cpu number then ugly things will happen, but it's unlikely to be that. Pretty sad coding though.
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference (address 0000000000000058) > ... > ip is at sysfs_create_group+0x30/0x2a0
Are you able to determine which pointer deref this is faulting at? I couldn't find any fields which look like they're 0x58 bytes into anything.
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