Re: [crash, -git] NULL pointer dereference, IP: [<c0190884>] page_cgroup_zoneinfo+0xf/0x1b

From: Li Zefan
Date: Tue Oct 21 2008 - 06:49:00 EST


>> nr of bisection commits: 14
>> ----------------------------
>> 656eb2c: add CONFIG_CORE_DUMP_DEFAULT_ELF_HEADERS
>> 6409324: coredump: format_corename: don't append .%pid if multi-threaded
>> b747c8c: make ptrace_untrace() static
>> c459643: bitmask: remove bitmap_scnprintf_len()
>> 30e8e13: cpuset: use seq_*mask_* to print masks
>> 3eda201: seq_file: add seq_cpumask_list(), seq_nodemask_list()
>> 85dd030: seq_file: don't call bitmap_scnprintf_len()
>> 40b6a76: cpuset.c: remove extra variable
>> 52d4b9a: memcg: allocate all page_cgroup at boot

The bug should be introduced by this patch.

>> c05555b: memcg: atomic ops for page_cgroup->flags
>> addb9ef: memcg: optimize per-cpu statistics
>> 5b4e655: memcg: avoid accounting special pages
>> b7abea9: memcg: make page->mapping NULL before uncharge
>> 073e587: memcg: move charge swapin under lock
>>
>> i'll poke in the middle - maybe i'm lucky and can find a
>> working/crashing tree to nudge the bisection back into life.
>
> Hi, Ingo,
>
> Li Zefan has reported this problem and Kamezawa is looking into it.

Yes, but seems a bit tough...

> I am unwell,
> I hope to look into the problem when I feel better or at-least in the intervals
> of time that I feel better.
>
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