Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:47:11 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: threshold_init_device/kobject_uevent_env oops |
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:35:56PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:05:40PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > > current linus tree + x86.git > > > > > > got > > > > > > Calling initcall 0xffffffff80b93d98: threshold_init_device+0x0/0x3f() > > > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000040 > > > IP: [<ffffffff80458e20>] kobject_uevent_env+0x2a/0x3d9 > > > > Does this happen on just Linus's tree? > > > > Can you send me a .config file for this? > > > > What is threshold_init()? Is it something new in the x86.git tree? > > no. A quick grep shows that it is in a file that _your_ changes in > Linus' latest have touched: > > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c
Ok, those are pretty much just search/and/replace type changes, but I have been running x86-64 boxes with these changes in place.
That's why I'm interested if Linus's tree right now shows this problem, and if I can get a .config of the offending kernel to try to reproduce it and fix it myself.
thanks,
greg k-h
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