From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263512AbTJUWbt (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:31:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263513AbTJUWbt (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:31:49 -0400 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:46596 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263512AbTJUWbs (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:31:48 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test7: Preempt enabled -> kernel panic Date: 21 Oct 2003 22:21:44 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <200310172319.59776.markus_schoder@yahoo.de> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1066774904 20070 192.168.12.62 (21 Oct 2003 22:21:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <200310172319.59776.markus_schoder@yahoo.de>, Markus Schoder wrote: | When compiling 2.6.0-test7 with preempt I get a kernel panic | when running the tst-eintr1 test program from the nptl 0.60 package. | It does not happen every time but running it repeatedly will lead | to a panic pretty quickly. | | With preempt disabled it's rock solid. | | Stack trace is not always the same but there always seems to | be infinite recursion. Also sometimes interrupts are disabled | (no SysRq) and sometimes not. I usually run 2.6 kernels with both softdog and NMI watchdog, have no idea if that would help other than to possibly force a reboot. | This is on an Athlon XP, kernel compiled with gcc 3.3.1. Check the list, there was something about gcc version, don't remember exactly what. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.