> I've fixed it (by reversing the order of those lines) for tomorrow's > linux-next. Somewhere between next-20100602 and next-20100604 something was changed that results in ia64 taking deref NULL oops in sys_init_module() ... Freeing unused kernel memory: 1984kB freed modprobe[1851]: NaT consumption 2216203124768 [1] Modules linked in: Pid: 1851, CPU 2, comm: modprobe psr : 0000121008526030 ifs : 8000000000000794 ip : [<a0000001000f0f31>] Not tainted (2.6.35-rc1-generic-smp-next-20100604) ip is at sys_init_module+0x131/0x420 At the point of dereference it looks like we were trying to load a 4-byte data object from offset 552 into the "struct module *" that wa returned by load_module(). -Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html