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From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
To: "Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh)" <bgholikh@cisco.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel panic:BUG in cascade at kernel/timer.c
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:00:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060811010000.GA3855@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F795765B112E7344AF36AA9112796415019ED349@xmb-sjc-212.amer.cisco.com>

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 02:26:15PM -0700, Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh) wrote:
> Hi All,
> We have developed our own custom board based on MPC8541 board running
> linux 2.6.11 During stress testing the system we get following kernel
> panic which related to timer cascase.
> Any hints greatly apprieciated. Many thanks in advance:

Is this an MP configuration?  If timer interrupts are distributed to more
than one cpu this could happen (buggy hardware). Also, I remember a missing 
barrier someplace for PPC which was fixed in newer kernels.  Read the GIT logs.

HTH
Kiran

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-11  0:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-10 21:26 kernel panic:BUG in cascade at kernel/timer.c Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh)
2006-08-10 22:48 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-11  1:00 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-10 21:12 kernel panic: BUG " Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh)

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