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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [OOPS] [XEN] OOPS early after boot on master
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:13:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1245050039.5782.867.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e8340490906111555r313ff6e9nce956fc76eff7382@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 18:55 -0400, Bryan Donlan wrote:
> On further analysis, it seems that that's a red herring - disabling PV
> spinlocks just makes it occur less often, I think... I'm currently
> still bisecting it; it's complicated by other OOPS-causing bugs having
> existed in the interim, but it definitely existed before the
> introduction of CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS.

It's worth bearing in mind that prior to CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS the
pv spinlock functionality was already present but not optional so it's
not unlikely that an issue with pv spinlocks could predate the addition
of the option.

Ian.



      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-15  7:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-07 17:10 [OOPS] [XEN] OOPS early after boot on master Bryan Donlan
2009-06-08 20:05 ` Bryan Donlan
     [not found]   ` <4A317433.5000700@goop.org>
2009-06-11 22:55     ` Bryan Donlan
2009-06-15  7:13       ` Ian Campbell [this message]

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