linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] x86/uapi for 3.8

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Date:	Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:35:13 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>
Cc:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/uapi for 3.8

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf
<markus@...ppelsdorf.de> wrote:
> On 2012.12.14 at 17:47 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> Ho humm. Anybody else see anything strange?
>
> Yes. I'm seeing a BUG early during boot on my machine (RIP=NULL):
>
>  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
>
> This is caused by commit 53b87cf088e2 ("x86, mm: Include the
> entire kernel memory map in trampoline_pgd")

Hmm. That reverts cleanly, and the result boots fine for me. And the
commit looks like exactly the kind of thing that could result in
problems with exactly the right memory layout, so it could explain why
the bisect failed and some kernels randomly worked for me and others
didn't.

So this at least looks like a very possible candidate.

Does anybody have an explanation for the problem?

Btw. the machine in question does not have EFI, and is a bog-standard
PC (DMI string: "P7H57D-V EVO, BIOS 0999 01/19/2010")

Matt? Jan?

                    Linus
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