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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Adam Kropelin <akropel1@rochester.rr.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5.38-mm1
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 17:54:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D8E6647.8B02E613@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020923004036.GA13921@www.kroptech.com

Adam Kropelin wrote:
> 
> Trying to boot 2.5.38-mm1 on SMP ppro gives an endless stream of oopses. (Well,
> to be honest I only let it scroll for about 30 seconds before declaring it
> "endless" and hitting the reset button.) Same .config on 2.5.38 stock boots
> fine.

It found a bug.  Someone is calling kmem_cache_create() in an
atomic region.  Plus I think that during startup, in_atomic()
is (probably incorrectly) returning true.

I'll ratelimit it to one message per second.

You can kill the printk at the bottom of kernel/sched.c for now.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-23  0:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-22  6:11 2.5.38-mm1 Andrew Morton
2002-09-23  0:40 ` 2.5.38-mm1 Adam Kropelin
2002-09-23  0:54   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-09-23  0:59     ` 2.5.38-mm1 Robert Love
2002-09-23  1:09       ` 2.5.38-mm1 Andrew Morton
2002-09-23  1:25     ` 2.5.38-mm1 John Levon
2002-09-23  1:39       ` 2.5.38-mm1 Andrew Morton

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