Re: Linus BK tree crashes with PANIC: INIT: segmentation violation

[Derek Atkins]

Linus,

Linus Torvalds <[e-mail]> writes:

> >         1) PANIC: INIT: ...
> >         2) String of Oopses
> >         3) Working Tree.
> > 
> > The changeover from 2-3 is approximately December 30 (see my previous
> > post).
> 
> I was hoping for a exact changset, your post didn't seem to be 100% sure.

The 'String of oopses' was a red herring.  It was fixed sometime in early
January.  The PANIC: INIT: problem, however, is real, and was introduced
by the following ChangeSet on January 7:

D 1.972 03/01/07 10:08:55-08:00 [e-mail] 15824 15815 2/0/1
P ChangeSet
C Move x86 signal handler return stub to the vsyscall page,
C and stop honoring the SA_RESTORER information.
C 
C This will prepare us for alternate signal handler returns.

If I build a kernel WITH this changeset it fails; if I build a kernel
at 1.971 (bjorn_helgaas's i810/i830 AGP patches) the kernel works just
fine.

So, something in your changes to kernel/sysenter.c or kernel/signal.c
causes INIT to PANIC and fail.

So, what would you like me to test, now?

-derek

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