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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, stsp@aknet.ru
Subject: Re: crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:40:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050405074014.GA25122@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050405072929.GA24560@elte.hu>


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> > this fixed my crashes too.
> 
> spoke too soon - they still trigger even with the patch applied.

the patch below fixes the crash, it was related to CONFIG_PREEMPT.

	Ingo

--
fix entry.S crash with PREEMPT+PAGEALLOC

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

--- linux/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S.orig
+++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S
@@ -165,9 +165,9 @@ ENTRY(resume_kernel)
 need_resched:
 	movl TI_flags(%ebp), %ecx	# need_resched set ?
 	testb $_TIF_NEED_RESCHED, %cl
-	jz restore_all
+	jz restore_nocheck
 	testl $IF_MASK,EFLAGS(%esp)     # interrupts off (exception path) ?
-	jz restore_all
+	jz restore_nocheck
 	call preempt_schedule_irq
 	jmp need_resched
 #endif

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-05  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-05  6:55 crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC Ingo Molnar
2005-04-05  7:03 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-05  7:07   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-05  7:16   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-05  7:29     ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-05  7:40       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2005-04-05  9:51         ` Mikael Pettersson
2005-04-05 18:09           ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-05  7:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-05 19:11 ` Stas Sergeev
2005-04-05 19:19   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-05 19:41     ` Stas Sergeev
2005-04-05 19:53       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-05 20:44         ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-05 21:04           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-06 15:44         ` Stas Sergeev
2005-04-07  8:00           ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-07 11:10             ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-07 14:47               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-07 14:51                 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-07 16:47                 ` Dave Jones
2005-04-07 17:17                   ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-04-07 17:23                   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-07 16:11             ` Stas Sergeev
2005-04-07 16:35               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-07 16:46                 ` Stas Sergeev
2005-04-07 16:55                   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-07 18:10                     ` Stas Sergeev
2005-04-10 13:20                     ` Stas Sergeev
2005-04-10 22:32                       ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-11 17:15                         ` Stas Sergeev

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