Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756852AbXKZU4T (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:56:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754685AbXKZU4K (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:56:10 -0500 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:40682 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754898AbXKZU4J (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:56:09 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:56:08 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Andrew Morton cc: Rik van Riel , kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@shadowen.org, balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc3-mm1 - Kernel Panic on IO-APIC In-Reply-To: <20071126123319.7483e57f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20071120204525.ff27ac98.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4743CC0B.9000508@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20071120221839.faab108e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071126143943.0a01665b@cuia.boston.redhat.com> <20071126123319.7483e57f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 718 Lines: 17 On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > hm. This smells like a startup ordering problem, but everything which > refresh_zone_stat_thresholds() should be set up by the time we run > initcalls. Maybe the zone lists are bad? refresh_zone_stat_thresholds goes through each zone and updates the stat threshold for every per cpu structure in each zone. So this could be a processor marked online where the pcp structures have not been allocated or a zone NULL pointer. - 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/