Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932178AbWCAKoF (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 05:44:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932264AbWCAKoF (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 05:44:05 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:58341 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932178AbWCAKoE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 05:44:04 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 02:32:35 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Laurent Riffard Cc: jesper.juhl@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rjw@sisk.pl, mbligh@mbligh.org, clameter@engr.sgi.com, ebiederm@xmission.com Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc5-mm1 Message-Id: <20060301023235.735c8c47.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <4405723E.5060606@free.fr> References: <20060228042439.43e6ef41.akpm@osdl.org> <9a8748490602281313t4106dcccl982dc2966b95e0a7@mail.gmail.com> <4404CE39.6000109@liberouter.org> <9a8748490602281430x736eddf9l98e0de201b14940a@mail.gmail.com> <4404DA29.7070902@free.fr> <20060228162157.0ed55ce6.akpm@osdl.org> <4405723E.5060606@free.fr> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1538 Lines: 39 Laurent Riffard wrote: > > Le 01.03.2006 01:21, Andrew Morton a ?crit : > > Laurent Riffard wrote: > > > >>BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000034 > > > > > > I booted that thing on five machines, four architectures :( > > > > Could people please test a couple more patchsets, see if we can isolate it? > > > > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.16-rc5-mm1.1.gz > > > > is 2.6.16-rc5-mm1 minus: > > > > proc-make-proc_numbuf-the-buffer-size-for-holding-a.patch > > tref-implement-task-references.patch > > proc-dont-lock-task_structs-indefinitely.patch > > proc-dont-lock-task_structs-indefinitely-git-nfs-fix.patch > > proc-dont-lock-task_structs-indefinitely-cpuset-fix.patch > > proc-optimize-proc_check_dentry_visible.patch > > Ok, 2.6.16-rc5-mm1.1 works for me: > - I can run java from command line in runlevel 1 > - I can launch Mozilla in X Useful, thanks. So the second batch of /proc patches are indeed the problem. If you have (even more) time you could test http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.16-rc5-mm2-pre1.gz. That's the latest of everything with the problematic sysfs patches reverted and Eric's recent /proc fixes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/