linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] 2.6.26-rc5-mm2 - kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:388!

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Message-Id: <20080611124303.017b853e.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:43:03 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
Cc:	kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.26-rc5-mm2 - kernel BUG at
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:388!

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:12:04 +0200
"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com> wrote:

> On 6/9/08, Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > The 2.6.26-rc5-mm2 kernel panic's, while booting up on the x86_64
> > box with the attached .config file.
> 
> (Please apologize for the strange way of replying to this message. It
> seems that LKML gave up delivering to my address, so I'm currently
> reading off lkml.org.)
> 
> This should already be fixed, but Andrew refused to apply the patch
> before releasing the -mm1 (and -mm2 apparently).

a) nobody ever sent it to me and b) I was told about it too late to be
able to go work out what tree it was in, cherrypick it then merge it.

> I'm attaching the
> patch, can you see if it helps?

hallelujah, thanks.  I already fished it out of linux-next.

I'm still hanging onto the 2.6.26-rc5-mm1 origin.patch and
linux-next.patch because I'm desperately trying to get things vaguely
stabilised so some VM testing can happen.

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