Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni <at> free-electrons.com> writes: Hi all, > > Hi Maxime, > > On 16/03/2015 at 19:19:00 +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote : > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 09:38:59AM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > > > * Maxime Ripard | 2014-06-13 16:25:06 [+0200]: > > > > > > >Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation. > > > >NR_IRQS:16 nr_irqs:16 16 > > > >Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 > > > >pgd = c0004000 > > > >[00000000] *pgd=00000000 > > > >Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT ARM > > > >Modules linked in: > > > >CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 3.14.3-rt4+ #11 > > > >task: c05ecb28 ti: c05e2000 task.ti: c05e2000 > > > >PC is at wake_up_process+0x8/0x40 > > > >LR is at kthread_create_on_node+0xb0/0x178 > > > … > > > >Do you know what could be the cause of this, or is this any known issue? > > > > > > No. This is very early in the boot process. I upgrade the at91's timer > > > patches but have no HW to actually check if this is still working. > > > > Do you have a link to these patches? > > > The issue has been solved at emtrion but I think the patches were not > sent yet. The issue is that threading the timer IRQs leads to a crash > because kthreadd is not started yet. > Are there any updates concerning the patches or does anybody have some more information on how the problem was resolved on the Atmel controller? I'm encountering the same problem on a Tegra K1 processor with a 3.10.61-rt65 kernel and I'm unsure what's the best way to fix it. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 [<c0072c80>] (wake_up_process+0x10/0x4c) from [<c005ff20>] (kthread_create_on_node+0x84/0xec) [<c005ff20>] (kthread_create_on_node+0x84/0xec) from [<c00bb67c>] (__setup_irq+0x29c/0x4cc) [<c00bb67c>] (__setup_irq+0x29c/0x4cc) from [<c00bb8f4>] (setup_irq+0x48/0x90) [<c00bb8f4>] (setup_irq+0x48/0x90) from [<c06d9f38>] (tegra3_register_wake_timer+0x28/0x64) [<c06d9f38>] (tegra3_register_wake_timer+0x28/0x64) from [<c0cea0fc>] (tegra_init_timer+0x23c/0x36c) [<c0cea0fc>] (tegra_init_timer+0x23c/0x36c) from [<c0ce9a88>] (clocksource_of_init+0x34/0x58) [<c0ce9a88>] (clocksource_of_init+0x34/0x58) from [<c0cba2b4>] (time_init+0x2c/0x38) [<c0cba2b4>] (time_init+0x2c/0x38) from [<c0cb79ac>] (start_kernel+0x234/0x370) Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! The problem is time_init() gets executed far before rest_init() where kthreadd_task gets initialized and wake_up_process(kthreadd_task) failes in kthread_create_on_node(). Best regards Christian Jann ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{�����ǫ���ܨ}���Ơz�j:+v�����w����ޙ��&�)ߡ�a����z�ޗ���ݢj��w�f