Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:26:09 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.25-rc6: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference |
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* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Code: 53 c0 e8 20 08 fc ff c1 e3 02 8b 14 33 89 54 24 20 8b 44 24 20 85 c0 75 10 eb 51 8b 12 89 54 24 20 8b 44 24 20 85 c0 74 43 8b 02 <0f> 18 00 90 8d 5a d8 39 6b 34 75 e4 8b 7c 24 0c 39 7b 30 75 db > > It faults in a prefetch. > > > Markus reported what looks to be the same thing here: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/21/202 and it's already in the regresison list. > > Same here. And both are AMD X2 early stepping machines. > > > I guess you've confirmed that this wasn't a mystery > > once-off-on-that-machine. > > > > I can't think what we did to cause this. > > I had a lengthy bug decoding session with Ingo and we found the root > cause: > > A dropped workaround for the prefetch bug in early X2s and > Opterons. Patch below.
can also be tested by picking up x86.git/latest, which has this patch included:
http://people.redhat.com/mingo/x86.git/README
Ingo
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