On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > The 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 kernel panic's while boot up on the s390x > > > > Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address 0000000000 > > 000000 > > Oops: 0004 #1¨ SMP > First question is: does this happen in current mainline? > > If not, it would be useful if someone could test futex-fix-init-order.patch > and futex-runtime-enable-pi-and-robust-functionality.patch on curent > mainline, because those are planned for 2.6.25. See: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/16/109 It unearthed a BUG in the S390 exception fixup tables :) tglx