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Date:	Fri, 6 Jan 2012 14:06:08 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core merge for 3.3

On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 10:38:41PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 21:11, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> > Ben Hutchings (1):
> >      topology: Provide CPU topology in sysfs in !SMP configurations
> 
> FWIW, as reported before, I can confirm that 3.2.0-next-20120106 crashes
> on m68k during boot:
> 
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
> fb0: frame buffer device, using 304K of video memory
> Non-volatile memory driver v1.3
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000020
> Oops: 00000000
> Modules linked in:
> PC: [<000c3f72>] internal_create_group+0x20/0x1ba
> SR: 2304  SP: 00c07f10  a2: 00c05c00
> d0: 00000000    d1: fffff24b    d2: 00000000    d3: 00000000
> d4: 00000000    d5: 002f0a28    a0: 00000008    a1: 002e306e
> Process swapper (pid: 1, task=00c05c00)
> Frame format=7 eff addr=00000020 ssw=0505 faddr=00000020
> wb 1 stat/addr/data: 0000 00000000 00000000
> wb 2 stat/addr/data: 0000 00000000 00000000
> wb 3 stat/addr/data: 0000 00000020 00000000
> push data: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> Stack from 00c07f78:
>         00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0033d5f0 0033641e 00326632
>         00000000 002e1ff8 000c4130 00000008 00000000 002f0a28 00336436 00000008
>         002f0a28 00000000 0000210c 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>         00000000 0033d5f0 00002008 00326632 0031dae2 0033641e 0031da66 000249b6
>         00002f04 00000000
> Call Trace: [<0033641e>] topology_sysfs_init+0x0/0x1e
>  [<00326632>] __alloc_bootmem+0x0/0x1a
>  [<000c4130>] sysfs_create_group+0xe/0x14
>  [<00336436>] topology_sysfs_init+0x18/0x1e
>  [<0000210c>] do_one_initcall+0x104/0x19a
>  [<00002008>] do_one_initcall+0x0/0x19a
>  [<00326632>] __alloc_bootmem+0x0/0x1a
>  [<0031dae2>] kernel_init+0x7c/0x11c
>  [<0033641e>] topology_sysfs_init+0x0/0x1e
>  [<0031da66>] kernel_init+0x0/0x11c
>  [<000249b6>] printk+0x0/0x1a
>  [<00002f04>] kernel_thread+0x3a/0x4e
> 
> Code: 2a2e 0010 4a86 6700 0162 4a84 660a 2046 <4aa8> 0018 6700 0154
> 4a84 6600 0122 2045 2010 6700 0128 486e fffc 2f00 2f06 61ff
> Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> 
> Reverting the above commit (ccbc60d3e19a1b6ae66ca0d89b3da02dde62088b)
> fixes it.
> 
> So to preserve bisectability, you may want to drop this ommit until the
> UP-only archs have been fixed.

Ick, sorry for missing that report, you are right.

Ben, I thought this patch was for UP systems, how did this work on your
testing?

Linus, can you revert this, or I can if you want me to.

thanks,

greg k-h
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