Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755828Ab0ASVSc (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:18:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755795Ab0ASVS3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:18:29 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:53508 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755794Ab0ASVS0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:18:26 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:14:22 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Kay Sievers Cc: Sachin Sant , Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Heiko Carstens , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [-next Jan 18] Boot failure on s390 with DEVTMPFS=y Message-ID: <20100119211422.GA10319@kroah.com> References: <20100118195743.b45f119e.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <4B546E7B.2080900@in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1201 Lines: 31 On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 03:31:09PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 15:21, Sachin Sant wrote: > > Today next (next-20100118) failed to boot on a s390 box > > with the following Oops : > > > Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address > > 0000000000543000 > > > <00000000001eb5da> shmem_fill_super+0x13a/0x25c > > <0000000000228cfa> get_sb_single+0xbe/0xdc > > <000000000034ffc0> dev_get_sb+0x2c/0x38 > > <000000000066c602> devtmpfs_init+0x46/0xc0 > > > Previous next builds worked fine on the same box. The only difference > > between configs of the two builds was CONFIG_DEVTMPFS. This option was > > enabled while compiling 20100118. > > Heiko Carstens posted a simple patch to work around the issue that > s390 write-protects the string, the option parser tries to modify. > When Greg has pick it up, this should be fixed. Yes, I've now queued it up in my trees. thanks, greg k-h -- 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/