From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752952Ab0JTOFH (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:05:07 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44533 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752102Ab0JTOFG (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:05:06 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Markus Trippelsdorf Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH] sched: automated per tty task groups Followup-To: gmane.linux.kernel Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:55:25 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1287479765.9920.9.camel@marge.simson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 95-88-18-139-dynip.superkabel.de User-Agent: KNode/4.4.6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mike Galbraith wrote: > Comments, suggestions etc highly welcome. I've tested your patch and it runs smoothly on my machine. However I had several NULL pointer dereference BUGs that happened when I left X or rebooted my system. I think this is caused by your patch. There is nothing in the logs unfortunately, but I scribbled down the following by hand (not the whole trace, I'm too lazy): BUG: unable to handle NULL pointer dereference at 0..038 IP: pick_next_task_fair 0xa7/0x1a0 ... Call Trace: schedule ...