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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:01:57 +0400
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@vger.kernel.org>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Joshua Hoblitt <j_kernel@hoblitt.com>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [Bug #11543] kernel panic: softlockup in tick_periodic() ???
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[Rafael J. Wysocki - Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 08:54:19PM +0200]
| This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
| of recent regressions.
| 
| The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
| from 2.6.26.  Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know
| (either way).
| 
| 
| Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11543
| Subject		: kernel panic: softlockup in tick_periodic() ???
| Submitter	: Joshua Hoblitt <j_kernel@hoblitt.com>
| Date		: 2008-09-11 16:46 (11 days old)
| References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122117786124326&w=4
| Handled-By	: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| 		  Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
| 		  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| 
| 

There are really multiple issues touched in report. nmi_watchdog
hangs, rtc device creation, NULL deref...

I've asked Joshua for more information. Since he must to use
netdev tree for a while maybe we could wait 'till next merge
window will be closed and check if nmi_watchdog does work.
So the work in progress.

		- Cyrill -