> Applied that patch and UP kernel built ok, and then crashed in the > same place with the memset() to a user-looking address from kmem_cache_alloc() > > So the percpu changes are innocent ... something else since 2.6.24 is > to blame. Only 5749 commits :-) I'll start bisecting.
The bisection narrowed in on an innocent patch in ipv4 space. Meanwhile the rush of patches continues. When I retested yesterday when Linus HEAD was 8af03e782... the CONFIG_SMP=n kernel worked perfectly. So maybe it was fixed? Or maybe the bug depends on the relative location of various bits of code/data and as the kernel grows and shrinks with incoming changes the problem comes and goes :-( -Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html