Re: WARNING at tty_buffer.c:428 process_one_work()

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Fri Mar 01 2013 - 23:50:22 EST


On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:10:08 -0500 (EST) David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 13:56:09 -0800
>
> > On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 04:47:11PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm getting these non-stop right when the hypervisor console registers
> >> on sparc64, and the machine won't boot up properly. This is with
> >> Linus's current tree.
> >>
> >> [511865.556835] console [ttyHV0] enabled
> >> [511865.564555] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> >> [511865.612410] WARNING: at drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:428 process_one_work+0x164/0x420()
> >> [511865.627846] tty is NULL
> >
> > Sorry about this, I have a patch, from Jiri, to get to Linus after
> > 3.9-rc1 to remove the warning. It's safe to ignore. Maybe I should
> > just push it today, I wasn't aware that it was being hit so easily.
>
> Ok, next I'm hitting some regression in Al Viro's signal changes when userland
> starts up. :-)

If only we had some way of testing this stuff before it gets into Linus'
tree ... ;-)

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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