Created attachment 23331 [details] should avoid the issue, but only when DEBUG_SMP flag is set! Hello, during the check with the static code analysis tool cppcheck (available on sourceforge:: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cppcheck/), i a possible nullpointer dereference in file linux-2.6.31/arch/m32r/kernel/smp.c. See the attached patch, the fixes this issue. Best regards Martin