On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 07:00:37PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:46:31AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > * Kamalesh Babulal <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > While running kernbench with the 2.6.23-git8 following oops is
> > > > produced
> > > >
> > > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010 RIP:
> > > > [<ffffffff8033f347>] __rb_rotate_left+0x7/0x70
> > >
> > > that looks nasty ...
> > >
> > > and -git8 should have the v2.6.23 scheduler code in essence.
> >
> > ah, this is likely with the recent scheduler commits included as well,
> > right?
> >
> > if it's reproducable, could you try with group scheduling disabled, i.e.
> > with:
> >
> > # CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is not set
> >
> > as that would be the main suspect for such type of a crash.
>
> Ok, preliminary results with this disabled seem to get us past
> kernbench. I am rerunning with it enabled to confirm it blammo's.
A rerun with it enabled however ran to completion. So I think we have
to assume this is at best not 100% reproducible. Seems that more
directed testing is going on now.
-apw
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