Re: boot panic after oops from sysfs_new_dirent

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Sep 01 2009 - 03:15:01 EST


Meelis Roos wrote:
>>> I powered on my 6-CPU E3000 after a summer pause and tried todays
>>> 2.6.31-rc8+git on it. It fails - first it spills lots of warnings about
>>> percpu things, then oopses in sysfs_new_dirent and then panics.
>
> Bisecting shows that there may be different crashes, like in
> 56513ed50cc8a5c184a3f347e81d74c850cc14fa below:

Yeah, I was trying to fix that one with
74d46d6b2d23d44d72c37df4c6a5d2e782f7b088 and it seemingly fixed it on
my machine. Apparently broken on yours. Are the errors different
before and after 74d46d6b2d?

Thanks.

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tejun
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