Re: oops during boot of 2.6.16-rc3-git7 on AMD64

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat Feb 18 2006 - 17:09:17 EST


Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi,
>
> vanilla 2.6.16-rc3-git7 gives me the following oops during boot (most
> of the time while mounting all filesystems) on my amd64 machine:
>
> (hand-written, no serial interface available)
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000008
> rip: run_timer_softirq+322
> process udev
> Call trace:
> __do_softirq+68



Looks like someone is corrupting the timer list. Nasty. Can you do
a binary search?

Or alternatively remove as many drivers as possible and narrow down
which one is to blame.

-Andi
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