Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754882AbYLBXeb (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 18:34:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753039AbYLBXeW (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 18:34:22 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:38157 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752952AbYLBXeW (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 18:34:22 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:33:36 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Jiri Slaby Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@linux.intel.com, mpm@selenic.com, tytso@mit.edu Subject: Re: mmotm 2008-12-01-19-41: early exception (page fault -- deref of 0x20) Message-Id: <20081202153336.7b765ec7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <4935C03A.7030603@gmail.com> References: <4935C03A.7030603@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1926 Lines: 52 On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:09:46 +0100 Jiri Slaby wrote: > Hi, > > while writing out warning about empty mtrr (or any other in the early stage), > I'm getting this: > PANIC: early exception 0e rip 10:ffffffff8025be26 error 0 cr2 20 > Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.28-rc6-mm1_64 #484 > Call Trace: > [] early_idt_handler+0x55/0x69 > [] ? getnstimeofday+0x46/0xc0 > [] ktime_get_real+0x11/0x50 > [] seed_std_data+0x11/0x30 > [] ? show_trace+0x10/0x20 > [] seed_random_pools+0x10/0x30 > [] init_oops_id+0x9/0x40 > [] print_oops_end_marker+0x9/0x20 > [] warn_slowpath+0x9d/0xd0 > [] ? up+0x34/0x50 > [] ? release_console_sem+0x1bd/0x210 > [] ? printk+0x3c/0x44 > [] mtrr_trim_uncached_memory+0x166/0x390 > [] ? early_gart_iommu_check+0xaf/0x2a7 > [] setup_arch+0x3ec/0x6a8 > [] start_kernel+0x65/0x3c6 > [] x86_64_start_reservations+0x7d/0x89 > [] x86_64_start_kernel+0xd8/0xdf > RIP 0x10 > > The clock is still null in kernel/time/timekeeping.c. > > This one is to blame: > random-add-a-way-to-get-some-random-bits-into-the-entropy-pools-early-on.patch urgh, OK, thanks, I'll drop it. Presumably your machine picked a different clocksource from Arjan's, mine and others. Now, how do we work out what clocksource you're using? dmesg -s 1000000 | grep -i clock nope dmesg -s 1000000 | grep -i using nope hrm. -- 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/