> hm, something in your patch series is early-crashing tip/master with
> this config:
>
>
http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Thu_Sep__4_21_23_20_CEST_2008.bad
>
> the early-RIP is 0xffffffff804365b0:
>
> ffffffff8043656a <proc_bus_pci_release>:
>
> ffffffff804365b0: be d0 00 00 00 mov __PLACEHOLDER__0_xd0,%esi
> ffffffff804365b5: e8 ad 28 e7 ff callq ffffffff802a8e67 <kmem_cache_alloc>
>
> fault 0xd, general protection fault. Given that it's an immediate
> constant load, something really serious happened.