On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Jens Döring wrote:
> I noticessed the following oops on 2.6.29.6 with -rt23 patch. without the
> patch anything is fine.
> [ 0.800000] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
> 00000034
> [ 0.800000] IP: [<c0233d54>] tick_periodic+0x59/0x6d
Does the patch below fix it ?
Thanks,
tglx
-----
Subject: geode-fix.patch
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:12:40 +0200
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/mfgpt_32.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-2.6-tip/arch/x86/kernel/mfgpt_32.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-tip.orig/arch/x86/kernel/mfgpt_32.c
+++ linux-2.6-tip/arch/x86/kernel/mfgpt_32.c
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ static irqreturn_t mfgpt_tick(int irq, v
static struct irqaction mfgptirq = {
.handler = mfgpt_tick,
- .flags = IRQF_DISABLED | IRQF_NOBALANCING,
+ .flags = IRQF_DISABLED | IRQF_NOBALANCING | IRQF_TIMER,
.name = "mfgpt-timer"
};
