Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm1 -- spinlock bad magic

Andy Whitcroft
2007-08-09T17:18:25Z

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:53:06PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Seeing spinlock bad magic BUG's from x86 and x86_64 test boxes,
> fsx-linux seems to be tickling it. Adding Peter as prop_norm_single
> seems to be his:

Talking to Peter on IRC he suggested I back out the patch below and
retest on these machines:

mm-dirty-balancing-for-tasks

One machine seems to have hung elsewhere (probabally another bug sigh),
and one has run the fsx-linux tests successfully. So this patch does
seem suspect. I will report back on the other tests when they complete.

-apw