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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Few questions about 2.5.6-pre3
Date: 12 Mar 2002 02:22:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1015917775.4808.9.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203120842570.17313-100000@netfinity.realnet.co.sz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203120842570.17313-100000@netfinity.realnet.co.sz>

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 01:46, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:

> Not sure wether this is a known issue but disabling CONFIG_PREEMPT booted 
> this box. Robert, here is the oops, if you want me to test a couple 
> things just send them my way, but its a high latency test box ;) so you 
> might have to wait a while between replies.

Thanks, Zwane.

I've never seen this.  I assume the box is SMP since you are hitting a
BUG in the spin_unlock code?  I almost want to think this is an SMP bug
(locking rules not being observed somewhere) and preemption is just
accelerating the race.

Ohh wait - this is 2.5.6-pre3 ?

Can you try 2.5.6 final (or anything later)?  There is a bug with SMP
and preempt and this could be it.  Let me know..

	Robert Love


  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-12  7:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-11  8:01 Few questions about 2.5.6-pre3 Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-03-12  6:46 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-03-12  7:22   ` Robert Love [this message]
2002-03-12 14:11     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-03-13  6:14       ` Zwane Mwaikambo

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