Re: OOPS in 2.2.8 buffer code (bdflush related)
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Wed, 12 May 1999 13:33:16 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Ionut Badulescu wrote:
>
> It seems that the kernel is trying to wake up bdflush and bdflush is not
> quite ready... bdflush_tsk == NULL and that NULL propagates all the way to
> %edx in wake_up_process. main.c does try to start bdflush before playing
> with initrd, so it looks like a race condition to me. BTW, the same kernel
> with the same initrd boots fine on a much faster machine (K6/350 UP).
Embarrassing, agreed. Easily fixed by putting a test for a NULL bdflush
task,
Linus
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