From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tglx@linutronix.de (Thomas Gleixner) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:57:50 +0100 (CET) Subject: BUG: spinlock recursion (sys_chdir, user_path_at, do_path_lookup ...) In-Reply-To: <20110112075229.GZ24920@pengutronix.de> References: <20110111110539.GP24920@pengutronix.de> <20110112075229.GZ24920@pengutronix.de> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote: > > [ 75.280000] r5:be961ee4 r4:00063015 > > > > I started to bisect, but already the first test case showed a different > > error (my getty dying every few seconds). > I bisected this one now, the first bad commit is > > 9c0729d (x86: Eliminate bp argument from the stack tracing routines) > > . It made a x86 specific change to include/linux/stacktrace.h. As I said on IRC already, that's complete nonsense. The commit changes a function prototype which is only relevant for x86. So how should that affect ARM ? > According to tglx the lockup above "is related to nicks scalability > stuff". I havn't researched yet the offending commit. Is that > necessary? Only if you are interested that the problem gets fixed. Thanks, tglx