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Re: [run_timer_softirq] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging reques ...

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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It's
It's
next->pprev = pprev;
next->pprev = pprev;
in __hlist_del(), and the trapping instruction decodes as in __hlist_del(), and the trapping instruction decodes as mov %rdx,0x8(%rax)
mov %rdx,0x8(%rax)
with %rax having the value dead000000000200,

Which is just LIST_POISON2.

So we've deleted that entry twice - LIST_POISON2 is what hlist_del()
sets pprev to after already deleting it once. Nobody cares, except for the list entry
debugging code, which isn't run on the hlist cases.

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