Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Nov 1998 00:53:13 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.1.129.. |
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On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Richard Gooch wrote: > > Well, that patch may fix other problems, but it doesn't fix the > problem I reported earlier with NULL pointer dereferences in the > swapper tasks on a Cyrix is. With vga=0 no problems, with vga=6 I get > the oops.
What are the addresses? As is, I don't really have anything at all to go on except that it's executing bad code..
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 32k freed > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 > current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000 > *pde = 00000000 > Oops: 0000 > CPU: 0 > EIP: 0010:[<c01a6b6b>] > EFLAGS: 00010246 > eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000f00 ecx: c0098440 edx: c0124f18 > esi: c0233fd0 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00009000 esp: c0008000
Oh, and the fact that your esp is corrupt, which is certainly bad, and can result in just about anything (because it will mean a corrupt "current").
What is your config?
Linus
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