Re: test3 responsible for atomic blast!

Bongani Hlope
2003-08-10T20:48:21Z

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On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 14:28:01 -0600
Bob Gill <gillb4@telusplanet.net> wrote:

> The really good news is 2.6.0-test3 is *much* more efficient at
> delivering error messages than earlier versions!
> The following is from /var/log/messages:

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> unknown_bootoption+0x0/0xfa
> Aug 10 14:07:38 localhost kernel:
> Aug 10 14:07:38 localhost kernel: bad: scheduling while atomic!
> Aug 10 14:07:38 localhost kernel: Call Trace:
> Aug 10 14:07:38 localhost kernel: [<c0105000>] rest_init+0x0/0xf5
> Aug 10 14:07:38 localhost kernel: [<c011d729>] schedule+0x6e4/0x6e9
> Aug 10 14:07:38 localhost kernel: [<c0107269>] default_idle+0x0/0x2c
> Aug 10 14:07:38 localhost kernel: [<c0105000>] rest_init+0x0/0xf5
> Aug 10 14:07:38 localhost kernel: [<c0107269>] default_idle+0x0/0x2c
> Aug 10 14:07:38 localhost kernel: [<c0105000>] rest_init+0x0/0xf5
> Aug 10 14:07:38 localhost kernel: [<c0107308>] cpu_idle+0x38/0x3a
> Aug 10 14:07:38 localhost kernel: [<c039672a>] start_kernel+0x1bd/0x215
> Aug 10 14:07:38 localhost kernel: [<c039643f>]
> unknown_bootoption+0x0/0xfa
>
> ... the bad: scheduling while atomic! keeps blasting away at my screen
> until I shutdown. I *do* shutdown right away before the system decides
> to really hang (and take out my root partition on next startup like it
> has done when I get these atomic crashes). Long before any real testing
> begins, nasty bugs like this have to go!
>
>
> --
> Bob Gill <gillb4@telusplanet.net>

The system wont really hang (and take out you root partition) disable CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP (kernel hacking -> Sleep-inside-spinlock checking) on you .config if you want them to go away.

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