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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmotm 2010-05-19 BUG weirdness...
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 09:45:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005200945.24901.dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100520085520.5176d13c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Thursday 20 May 2010 05:55:20 am Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2010 11:47:50 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 May 2010 16:13:09 PDT, akpm@linux-foundation.org said:
> > > The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2010-05-19-16-12 has been uploaded to
> > > 
> > >    http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
> > 
> > So I'm looking closer at the BUG I just posted
> 
> I can't see that BUG report on lkml or in inbox.
> 
> > - I had deleted two further
> > BUGs because they were obviously follow-ons to the original.  But then...
> > 
> > Note the following 2 lines:
> > 
> > [   35.357018] note: keymap[2481] exited with preempt_count 1
> > [   35.360503] BUG: scheduling while atomic: keymap/2481/0x10000002
> > 
> > The kernel reports the instigating process exited - and then reports it
> > as the offender for a "scheduling while atomic". Insufficient attempted
> > cleanup after the first BUG?  Do we care because this is a sign of a
> > scheduler bug that could trip on a non-BUG as well, or is it "all bets
> > are off" because of the first BUG?
> 
> Yes, the oops code will end up calling do_exit() to get rid of this
> process and to try to keep the machine limping along.  So if you hit an
> oops with (say) a spinlock held, the task will end up calling do_exit()
> with a non-zero preempt_count.
> 
> So the only problem I'm seeing here is .... Dmitry's ;)


Hmm, any chance you could stick a printk in input_set_keycode and print
the id/name of the input device?

-- 
Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-20 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-19 23:13 mmotm 2010-05-19-16-12 uploaded akpm
2010-05-20 15:21 ` mmotm 2010-05-19 - Kconfig dependency list from hell Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-05-20 15:47 ` mmotm 2010-05-19 BUG weirdness Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-05-20 12:55   ` Andrew Morton
2010-05-20 16:45     ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2010-05-20 17:52     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-05-20 18:17     ` [2.6.34 PATCH] kernel: fix exit message for dead process Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-05-20 18:36       ` Andrew Morton
2010-05-20 21:08 ` [PATCH -mmotm] media: ak881x needs slab.h Randy Dunlap
2010-06-01  6:04   ` Ingo Molnar
2010-05-20 21:08 ` [PATCH -mmotm] backlight: fix s6e63m0 kconfig Randy Dunlap
2010-05-20 21:08 ` [PATCH -mmotm] backlight: fix s6e63m0 device attr function return types Randy Dunlap

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