Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:49:21 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux390@de.ibm.com,
       linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - kernel oops while bootup on s390x
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On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > The 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 kernel panic's while boot up on the s390x
> > 
> > Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address 0000000000
> > 000000
> > Oops: 0004 #1? SMP
> First question is: does this happen in current mainline?
> 
> If not, it would be useful if someone could test futex-fix-init-order.patch
> and futex-runtime-enable-pi-and-robust-functionality.patch on curent
> mainline, because those are planned for 2.6.25.

See: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/16/109

It unearthed a BUG in the S390 exception fixup tables :)

   tglx
 
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