Alan Cox writes:
> The oops is caused because some kernel threads are created before we have
> the root fs mounted. That leaves them with invalid things procfs follows
> with fatal results.
I encountered this before. You want to make sure that all such threads
are created with the following flags:
CLONE_FILES | CLONE_FS | CLONE_SIGHAND
See bottom of fs/buffer.c for example usage.
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