From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266244AbUG0O32 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:29:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266293AbUG0O31 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:29:27 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:13285 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266244AbUG0O3U (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:29:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:29:18 +0100 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: Gene Heskett Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.8-rc2 crashes Message-ID: <20040727142918.GE12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <200407271233.04205.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200407271233.04205.gene.heskett@verizon.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:33:04PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings everybody; > > I have now had 4 crashes while running 2.6.8-rc2, the last one > requiring a full powerdown before the intel-8x0 could > re-establish control over the sound. > > All have had an initial Opps located in prune_dcache, and were > logged as follows: > Jul 27 07:58:58 coyote kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 ... which means that dentry_unused list got corrupted, which doesn't really help. Could you try to narrow it down to 2.6.8-rc1-bk?