Re: 2.6.32.1: BUG and panic: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000001f

From: Peter Palfrader
Date: Thu Dec 24 2009 - 08:04:35 EST


On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Peter Palfrader wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Peter Palfrader wrote:
>
> > > If that doesn't help perhaps disable CONFIG_HID_GYRATION,
> > > but from your other oops something more seems to be broken anyways.
> >
> > This is a static kernel - no module support. Anyway, I also tried
> > without CONFIG_USB_HID (which pulls in all the other HID_* things) but
> > no luck.
>
> However, disabling all of HID (CONFIG_HID_SUPPORT=n) makes the system
> boot (Previously HID, HIDRAW and HID_SUPPORT were still enabled).

However, I still see panics on boot occassionally, tho not so often or
reproducible. So far only on dl385 (opteron) systems.

And all of the backtraces go through sysfs_new_dirent() near the top.
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