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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy•org>
To: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in•ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah•com>, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@vger•kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de•ibm.com>,
	linux-s390@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [-next Jan 18] Boot failure on s390 with DEVTMPFS=y
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:31:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac3eb2511001180631r5209dff6s83ecdaee708e0b0b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B546E7B.2080900@in.ibm.com>

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 15:21, Sachin Sant <sachinp@in•ibm.com> wrote:
> Today next (next-20100118) failed to boot on a s390 box
> with the following Oops :

> Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address
> 0000000000543000

> <00000000001eb5da> shmem_fill_super+0x13a/0x25c
> <0000000000228cfa> get_sb_single+0xbe/0xdc
> <000000000034ffc0> dev_get_sb+0x2c/0x38
> <000000000066c602> devtmpfs_init+0x46/0xc0

> Previous next builds worked fine on the same box. The only difference
> between configs of the two builds was CONFIG_DEVTMPFS. This option was
> enabled while compiling 20100118.

Heiko Carstens posted a simple patch to work around the issue that
s390 write-protects the string, the option parser tries to modify.
When Greg has pick it up, this should be fixed.

Thanks,
Kay

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-18 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-18  8:57 linux-next: Tree for January 18 Stephen Rothwell
2010-01-18 14:21 ` [-next Jan 18] Boot failure on s390 with DEVTMPFS=y Sachin Sant
2010-01-18 14:31   ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2010-01-19 21:14     ` Greg KH
2010-01-19 23:49       ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-01-18 23:44 ` linux-next: Tree for January 18 (pci + pm) Randy Dunlap
2010-01-19 23:04   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-20  4:39     ` Jesse Barnes
2010-01-20  5:20       ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-01-20 16:53     ` Randy Dunlap
2010-01-28 16:33     ` Randy Dunlap
2010-01-28 19:04       ` Jesse Barnes

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