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    SubjectRe: 2.6.17-mm6
    On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:02:50PM +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
    > On Thursday 06 July 2006 18:31, john stultz wrote:
    > > On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 23:32 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
    > > > On Wednesday 05 July 2006 21:46, Greg KH wrote:
    > > > > On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 01:37:13PM -0700, john stultz wrote:
    > > > > > On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 01:49 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > > > > > > On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 09:34:14 +0100
    > > > > > >
    > > > > > > Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
    > > > > > > > > a tested version...
    > > > > > > >
    > > > > > > > This one worked, thanks. Try the same URL again, I've uploaded
    > > > > > > > two better shots 6,7 that capture the first oops. Unfortunately,
    > > > > > > > I have a pair of oopses that interchange every couple of boots,
    > > > > > > > so I've included both ;-)
    > > > > > >
    > > > > > > OK, that's more like it. Thanks again.
    > > > > > >
    > > > > > > http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/oops-20060703/oops6.jpg
    > > > > > > http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/oops-20060703/oops7.jpg
    > > > > > >
    > > > > > > People cc'ed. Help!
    > > > > >
    > > > > > Hmmm. No clue on this one from just looking at it.
    > > > > >
    > > > > > Greg, do you see anything wrong with the way I'm registering the
    > > > > > timekeeping .resume hook in
    > > > > > kernel/timer.c::timekeeping_init_device()? It looks the same as the
    > > > > > other users to me.
    > > > >
    > > > > At first glance, no, it looks sane to me.
    > > > >
    > > > > Are you sure you aren't registering two things with the same name
    > > > > somehow?
    > >
    > > Looking at it, I don't see how that could happen.
    >
    > I don't think it's John's code. I commented out the sysfs registration code
    > from timekeeping_init_device() and the kernel gets further, where it crashes
    > on kmem_cache_create. SLAB also complains about "losing its name" and
    > being "of size 0".
    >
    > This happens identically on 2.6.18-rc1, and 2.6.17-mm6. Greg, could it be
    > anything you've changed recently? I considered bisectioning -mm, but there's
    > been a lot of RAID problems and I'm using RAID5.

    Please bisect 2.6.18-rc1 if you have git, as the problem is there, and
    would be good to track down.

    thanks,

    greg k-h
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