Re: [Bug #12498] OOPS and panic on 2.6.29-rc1 on xen-x86

Nick Piggin
2009-01-20T00:35:16Z

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:32:16PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> of recent regressions.
>
> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> from 2.6.28. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know
> (either way).
>
>
> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12498
> Subject : OOPS and panic on 2.6.29-rc1 on xen-x86
> Submitter : Bryan Donlan <bdonlan-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> Date : 2009-01-12 17:26 (8 days old)
> First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e97a630eb0f5b8b380fd67504de6cedebb489003
> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123178178029065&w=4
> Handled-By : Nick Piggin <npiggin-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
>

This one was fixed by backing out the patch to make vmalloc purge
spinlock into a mutex.