On 05/27/2011 09:00 AM, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 08:55:13AM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > >>> Have you guys been able to reproduce the problem? >> >> Staring at the disassembly was good enough, I think. The commit you >> bisected is restructuring some of the hardware probing code for Malta and >> seems to result in gcmp_present being set without _gcmp_base having been >> assigned, thus the null pointer dereference. > > Can you test below patch? Thanks, arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-init.c: In function 'prom_init': arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-init.c:363: error: implicit declaration of function 'register_cmp_smp_ops' arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-init.c:366: error: implicit declaration of function 'register_vsmp_smp_ops' make[2]: *** [arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-init.o] Error 1 Rob