Re: [2.6.1-mm5] Unable to handle kernel paging request

From: Zwane Mwaikambo
Date: Wed Jan 21 2004 - 16:55:15 EST


On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Eduard Roccatello <lilo.please.no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 2.6.1-mm5 gives me "Unable to handle kernel paging request" on load and
> > then it hangs up.
>
> If you disable ipv6 in kernel config, does it boot up OK?

There is an oops in that area (round about the first rebalance tick) with
the scheduler groups code. Only happens on some Uniprocessor boxes, so it
could be a race. Essentially the sched_groups circular list isn't
terminated properly. I'll dig deeper in a bit.
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