Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> 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? This is not happening with the current mainline 2.6.24.{1,2}. >>> >>> 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 :) > > Oops, wrong reference. > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/16/95 > > Thanks, > tglx To conform the patches causing the panic, I tested the 2.6.24.2 kernel with the futex-fix-init-order.patch and futex-runtime-enable-pi-and-robust-functionality.patch applied and they seem to cause the kernel panic. Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address 0000000000 000000 Oops: 0004 #1¨ SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 Not tainted 2.6.25-rc2-mm1-autotest #1 Process swapper (pid: 1, task: 000000003f830000, ksp: 000000003f83ba48) Krnl PSW : 0704a00180000000 000000000024b2be (futex_atomic_cmpxchg_std+0x12/0x28 ) R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:2 CC:2 PM:0 EA:3 Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000074 00000000fffffff2 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 00000000004d0764 0000000000000000 00000000004d8768 0000000000000000 000000003f83bdb0 0000000000000040 0000000000343950 00000000000627e4 000000003f83bdb0 Krnl Code: 000000000024b2b2: b90400bf lgr %r11,%r15 000000000024b2b6: a718fff2 lhi %r1,-14 000000000024b2ba: b2790100 sacf 256 >000000000024b2be: ba342000 cs %r3,%r4,0(%r2) 000000000024b2c2: 1813 lr %r1,%r3 000000000024b2c4: b2790000 sacf 0 000000000024b2c8: b9140021 lgfr %r2,%r1 000000000024b2cc: e3b0b0700004 lg %r11,112(%r11) Call Trace: (<000000003f83bda8>¨ 0x3f83bda8) <00000000004bdeec>¨ init+0x30/0x104 <00000000004b0c40>¨ kernel_init+0x1e0/0x370 <000000000001a5c6>¨ kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc <000000000001a5c0>¨ kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc <4>--- end trace 561bb236c800851f ¨--- note: swapper1¨ exited with preempt_count 1 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! -- Thanks & Regards, Kamalesh Babulal, Linux Technology Center, IBM, ISTL. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html