Re: 2.6.2-rc1-mm2 kernel oops

[Andrew Morton]

Eric <eric@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 	I am now having this problem. See the thread "Kernels > 2.6.1-mm3 do not 
>  boot." I had a kernel that would hang after uncompressing. Seems that gcc 3.3 
>  generates bad code w/ -funit-at-a-time. Now I get the test_wp_bit oops w/ 
>  kernel version 2.6.2-rc2-mm2.
>  	Since I have already commented out the line.. and it led to this oops, what 
>  the heck is the real problem here?
>  	Seems alot of other SMP systems are breaking with this too.

Pretty simple:

init/main.c does

	mem_init();
	kmem_cache_init();
	sort_main_extable();

but mem_init() calls test_wp_bit().  The exception tables haven't been
sorted yet.

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