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    SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] x86/uapi for 3.8
    On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf
    <markus@trippelsdorf.de> wrote:
    > On 2012.12.14 at 17:47 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    >>
    >> Ho humm. Anybody else see anything strange?
    >
    > Yes. I'm seeing a BUG early during boot on my machine (RIP=NULL):
    >
    > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
    >
    > This is caused by commit 53b87cf088e2 ("x86, mm: Include the
    > entire kernel memory map in trampoline_pgd")

    Hmm. That reverts cleanly, and the result boots fine for me. And the
    commit looks like exactly the kind of thing that could result in
    problems with exactly the right memory layout, so it could explain why
    the bisect failed and some kernels randomly worked for me and others
    didn't.

    So this at least looks like a very possible candidate.

    Does anybody have an explanation for the problem?

    Btw. the machine in question does not have EFI, and is a bog-standard
    PC (DMI string: "P7H57D-V EVO, BIOS 0999 01/19/2010")

    Matt? Jan?

    Linus


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