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

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat Dec 26 2009 - 12:12:15 EST


On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 02:04:25PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> 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).

It's suspicious if you don't have such devices, that would
point to something being confused in the driver probing
layer.

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

Multiple systems and the same oopses?

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

Please post full oopses.

-Andi

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