* Paul Gortmaker | 2014-09-04 11:29:27 [-0400]: >If a broken machine with issues raises an MCE irq event real >early in the boot, it can try and wake the -rt specific handler >thread (mce_notify_helper) before it exists. (It is created >through a device_initcall that happens later in the boot.) When >this happens, we see the irq, which calls the wake with a null >pointer, which then panics the machine at boot. applied. Sebastian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html