[ltt-dev] kernel panic

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Benjamin Poirier (benjamin.poirier at polymtl.ca) wrote:
> 
 [...]
> kvm -m 512 -drive file=rootFile32,index=0,media=disk,snapshot=on
> -nographic -kernel linux-2.6-lttng/arch/i386/boot/bzImage -append
> "root=/dev/sda1 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400 ro"
> 
> vdebian32 login: root
> Password: root
> root at vdebian32:~# while true; do ltt-armall && ltt-disarmall; done
> Connecting /mnt/debugfs/lt[   51.944778] BUG: unable to handle kernel
> NULL pointer dereference at (null)
> [   51.945031] IP: [<c1007258>] add_nops+0x51/0x6b
> [   51.945031] *pde = 00000000
> [   51.945031] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> [   51.945031] LTT NESTING LEVEL : 0

Just found the problem. Commit

commit 8b5a10fc6fd02289ea03480f93382b1a99006142
Author: Jan Beulich <JBeulich at novell.com>
Date:   Wed Aug 19 08:40:48 2009 +0100

from mainline breaks add_nops for lttng in !CONFIG_MODULE configs. Will
fix in the next release. Thanks for providing me an easy way to
reproduce the bug.

Thanks,

Mathieu


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