Re: 2.5.7: acct.c oops

[OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>]

Bob Miller <rem@osdl.org> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 09:50:10AM -0600, Bob_Tracy wrote:
> > I might have missed this one.  After all, this is a pretty low-traffic
> > list :-).
> > 
> > Running "accton" (with or without arguments) consistently generates
> > an oops at linux/kernel/acct.c:169
> > 	BUG_ON(!spin_is_locked(&acct_globals.lock));
> > 
> > I first saw this when shutting down my machine.  The shutdown scripts
> > run "accton" without any arguments to terminate accounting, regardless
> > of whether it's running.
> > 
> > 2.5.7 kernel on a Dell laptop running a Mandrake distribution.
> > 
> > -- 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Bob Tracy                   WTO + WIPO = DMCA? http://www.anti-dmca.org
> > rct@frus.com
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Hi Tracy,
> 
> Do you have the rest of the of oops message passed through ksymoops?
> I'll also try to reproduce here.  TIA.

Probably, his kernel is not SMP. if so, spin_is_locked() return 0 always.

Regards.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>