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Message-Id: <1196207540.6058.114.camel@johannes.berg>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:52:20 +0100
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: NULL dereference in clockevents_program_event
> During a hibernate cycle on my G5, while machine was powering down after
> saving the image, I just had a NULL dereference in
> clockevents_program_event when accessing dev->mode, dev was NULL.
>
> Unfortunately the machine rebooted before I was able to write down more
> than the fact that it was called from tick_program_event(); the problem
> doesn't seem to be easily reproducible.
>
> From what I can see when doing the same thing, the shutdown attempts to
> offline all CPUs. Because the snapshot was actually saved to disk and
> the machine was shutting down I guess that the it happened at that time,
> but I have no idea what else to do to debug this.
>
> I have
>
> | CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y
> | CONFIG_NO_HZ=y
>
> in this config.
I just got the same or a similar thing again and was able to write down
more of the stack dump:
NIP clock_events_program_event+0x20
LR tick_program_event+0x64
Stack:
hr_timer_interrupt+0x211
timer_interrupt+0xc4
decrementer_common+0x110
johannes
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