Re: [percpu] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Sep 02 2014 - 13:17:10 EST


On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 11:55:58AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2014, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> > Added by ac1bea85781e (sched,rcu: Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent
> > states), removed by 4a81e8328d379 (rcu: Reduce overhead of cond_resched()
> > checks for RCU). So, as you say, no effect on contemporary kernels.
>
> Well not sure what to make out of all of this....

Yep, still confused as to how the patch adding the definition could have
caused a failure. Fengguang, any thoughts?

Thanx, Paul

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