linux-kernel - Re: oops while booting with recent git kernel

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Date:	Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:30:21 +0200
From:	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
To:	"Arkadiusz Miskiewicz" <a.miskiewicz@...il.com>
Cc:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: oops while booting with recent git kernel

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
<a.miskiewicz@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Not sure if it's worth to report this before all initial merges happen but
> here it is anyway.
>
> git kernel with latest commit:
> commit fd048088306656824958e7783ffcee27e241b361
> Date:   Sat Oct 11 13:23:48 2008 -0700
>
> booted on thinkpad z60m results with such oops:
> http://carme.pld-linux.org/~arekm/img_2325_small.png
>
> Config used:
> http://carme.pld-linux.org/~arekm/img_2325_small.config

Thanks for the report.

It seems to be an instance of this (known bad) code:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/4/386

So hopefully it will be fixed soon.


Vegard

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