linux-kernel - Re: threshold_init_device/kobject_uevent

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Message-ID: <20080125221548.GA15172@suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:15:48 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: threshold_init_device/kobject_uevent_env oops

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:05:40PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> current linus tree + x86.git
> 
> got
> 
> Calling initcall 0xffffffff80b93d98: threshold_init_device+0x0/0x3f()
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000040
> IP: [<ffffffff80458e20>] kobject_uevent_env+0x2a/0x3d9

Does this happen on just Linus's tree?

Can you send me a .config file for this?

What is threshold_init()?  Is it something new in the x86.git tree?

thanks,

greg k-h
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