Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Regression: ONE CPU fails bootup at Re: [3.2.0-RC7] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000598 1.478005] IP: [<ffffffff8107a6c4>] queue_work_on+0x4/0x30 | From | John Stultz <> | Date | Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:35:32 -0800 |
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On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 13:25 +0100, Stefan Bader wrote: > Which may point to execution of the irq worker (including a schedule_work) > before the rtc-cmos parts are finished... Would explain why moving the > initialize call further down does at least narrow the window for it to happen... > The only thing I do not understand then is why that seems only to happen on Xen > guests...
Its just likely with Xen SMP guests that the race window is larger. I suspect similar behavior could be tripped on other slower SMP boxes as well.
thanks -john
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