Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Nov 1998 19:48:26 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.1.129.. |
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Linus Torvalds writes: > > > On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > > > I'm still working on getting the patch, but does it fix the "UP flu" that > > those of us not blessed with multi-processor machines have been seeing > > since 127-pre7? Unless I missed a message here, I thought the problem was > > still unresolved. This is one of the things which definitely needs to be > > fixed before 2.2 (so you're not just a chicken ;) or the outcry will be > > amazing... > > Nope, the UP flu should be fixed by the separate patch I posted earlier > (and here it is for your edification again). Please tell me whether it > really does fix the problems you've seen..
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.
Boot log appended.
Regards,
Richard....
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 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 2, process nr: 2, stackpage=c0007000) Stack: Call Trace: Code: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 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:[<c01a6b8c>] EFLAGS: 00010292 eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000f00 ecx: 00000001 edx: c011e6b4 esi: c0233fd0 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00009000 esp: c0006000 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 3, process nr: 3, stackpage=c0005000) Stack: Call Trace: Code: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
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