linux-kernel - Re: Kernel BUG in 2.6.26-git series

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Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:03:48 +0200
From:	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
To:	"Larry Finger" <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel BUG in 2.6.26-git series

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net> wrote:
> In the current git pulls from Linus's tree, I get a kernel BUG if
> CONFIG_SCHED_SMT is defined. It does not always appear, but when it does, it
> is late in the bootup sequence. Perhaps there is a timing issue. This is an
> x86_64 system on an HP dv2815nr notebook with and AMD Turion X2 CPU. My
> distro is openSUSE 11.0.
>
> kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
> 000000000000002
> kernel: IP: [<ffffffff80231aec>] sched_mc_power_savings_store+0x13/0x41

Maybe LKML is slow and somebody else replied to this before me, but I
know how much I hate to discover that I've been bisecting something
that was fixed a week ago in another tree, so here's a link you might
try :-)

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/24/398


Vegard

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disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation."
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