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Hi, On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:08:56AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > (please always do reply-to-all) Oh, sorry. Sometimes mutt doesn't recognize mails belonging to a list. > That was an easy one - it crashed at > > EIP is at mcheck_init+0x4/0x80 > > right at the start of mcheck_init(), so it had to be the access of > mce_disabled. > > It accessed the address c0729c38: > > BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c0729c38 > > and the code dump shows an access to that address. > > And the only way in which an access to a global variable of this nature can > oops is if that variable has been unmapped from the kenrel address space. > We unmap (and reuse) the __init memory, so it had to be a sectioning bug. The fix was clear to me, though. After seeing it, I could imagine what went wrong. Hannes - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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