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xen-devel
[Xen-devel] Re: 2.6.39 crashes BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 22:51 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:59:26PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 16:38 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > With the latest linus/master I get this when starting a Xen Linux PV
> > > guest:
> > >
> > > [ 0.404760] initcall psmouse_init+0x0/0x79 returned 0 after 59 usecs
> > > [ 0.404767] calling cmos_init+0x0/0x6a @ 1
> > > [ 0.464855] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
> > > 0000000000000428
> > > [ 0.464867] IP: [<ffffffff8105d347>] queue_work_on+0x4/0x1d
> > [snip]
> > > [ 0.465018] Call Trace:
> > > [ 0.465023] [<ffffffff8105d38f>] queue_work+0x1a/0x1c
> > > [ 0.465029] [<ffffffff8105d3a4>] schedule_work+0x13/0x15
> > > [ 0.465035] [<ffffffff81331b2e>] rtc_update_irq+0x10/0x12
> > > [ 0.465041] [<ffffffff81333939>] cmos_checkintr+0x4d/0x55
> > > [ 0.465047] [<ffffffff81333987>] cmos_irq_disable+0x46/0x4e
> > > [ 0.465051] [<ffffffff8133481d>] cmos_set_alarm+0xd9/0x16e
> > > [ 0.465051] [<ffffffff813320a4>] __rtc_set_alarm+0x7d/0x88
> > > [ 0.465051] [<ffffffff813321fa>] rtc_timer_enqueue+0x71/0xb8
> > > [ 0.465051] [<ffffffff81331707>] ? rtc_tm_to_time+0x2f/0x38
> > >
> > > ... full log at the end.
> > >
> > > From a brief look it looks as if rtc_device_register was never
> > > called, so
> > >
> > > INIT_WORK(&rtc->irqwork, rtc_timer_do_work);
> > >
> > > was never called.. and hence schedule_work tries to derefence an
> > > unitialized rtc->irqwork.
> > >
> > > Which actually sounds right - the rtc_device_register should not
> > > be called since there are no RTC clocks exposed.
> >
> >
> > Huh. Did you see this with 2.6.38 vanilla? Just want to clarify if this
>
> No. 2.6.38 vaniall works great.
Ok. Hrm.
> > Any insight there?
>
> I hoped you might have :-)
Could you help me understand where in the probe logic xen bombs out of
the cmos code?
thanks
-john
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