On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 15:21, Sachin Sant <sachinp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Today next (next-20100118) failed to boot on a s390 box > with the following Oops : > Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address > 0000000000543000 > <00000000001eb5da> shmem_fill_super+0x13a/0x25c > <0000000000228cfa> get_sb_single+0xbe/0xdc > <000000000034ffc0> dev_get_sb+0x2c/0x38 > <000000000066c602> devtmpfs_init+0x46/0xc0 > Previous next builds worked fine on the same box. The only difference > between configs of the two builds was CONFIG_DEVTMPFS. This option was > enabled while compiling 20100118. Heiko Carstens posted a simple patch to work around the issue that s390 write-protects the string, the option parser tries to modify. When Greg has pick it up, this should be fixed. Thanks, Kay -- 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