Re: 2.6.25-rc6: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference

From: Markus Rehbach
Date: Thu Mar 27 2008 - 14:30:30 EST


Thomas Gleixner schrieb:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/21/202 and it's already in the regresison list.
>
> Same here. And both are AMD X2 early stepping machines.

> A dropped workaround for the prefetch bug in early X2s and
> Opterons. Patch below.

The patch cures it. Tested with rc5-git5, and it was 100%
reproducible here.

Markus
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