On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 02:47:11PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:35:56PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Oh wait, I do see a change. We are now (finally) emitting a kobject uevent for these devices, which somehow the code can't handle properly. Let me go poke this some more, unfortunatly I don't have any AMD 64 boxes here anymore, only Intel based processors, so I can't run this module... thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/