Messages in this thread | | | From | Kay Sievers <> | Date | Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:31:09 +0100 | Subject | Re: [-next Jan 18] Boot failure on s390 with DEVTMPFS=y |
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On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 15:21, Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com> 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.
Thanks, Kay
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