Re: recent -git: BUG in free_thread_xstate

From: Vegard Nossum
Date: Wed Jul 23 2008 - 18:06:00 EST


On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Dmitry Adamushko
<dmitry.adamushko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at c0804358
>> IP: [<c057e38d>] schedule+0x1ed/0x850

[...]

> So I guess, 'cpu' value is slightly, well, out of reality. Check the
> address of "runqueues" in your kernel image...
> I guess, it should be quite close to the "fault" address... then we
> can even calculate 'cpu' :-)

Yup, that's right.

$ nm vmlinux | grep runqueues
c0803f00 d per_cpu__runqueues


Vegard

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