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

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Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:18:20 -0500
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel BUG in 2.6.26-git series

Vegard Nossum wrote:
> 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 :-)

That patch fixes my problem as well. I scanned the LKML archive just before 
submitting my E-mail, but I missed your thread.

Thanks,

Larry
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