From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261259AbVFNRLg (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:11:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261260AbVFNRLg (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:11:36 -0400 Received: from mail2.utc.com ([192.249.46.191]:40885 "EHLO mail2.utc.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261259AbVFNRLe (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:11:34 -0400 Message-ID: <42AF0FA2.2050407@cybsft.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:10:58 -0500 From: "K.R. Foley" Organization: Cybersoft Solutions, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Lord CC: Andrew Morton , pozsy@uhulinux.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au Subject: Re: Race condition in module load causing undefined symbols References: <42A99D9D.7080900@xfs.org> <20050610112515.691dcb6e.akpm@osdl.org> <20050611082642.GB17639@ojjektum.uhulinux.hu> <42AAE5C8.9060609@xfs.org> <20050611150525.GI17639@ojjektum.uhulinux.hu> <42AB25E7.5000405@xfs.org> <20050611120040.084942ed.akpm@osdl.org> <42AEDCFB.8080002@xfs.org> <42AEF979.2000207@cybsft.com> <42AF080A.1000307@xfs.org> In-Reply-To: <42AF080A.1000307@xfs.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Steve Lord wrote: > So is this some P4 specific optimization which is not working as > intended? > > Steve > > I'd say not since the first system I saw this on was a dual PIII Xeon. While I am not 100% sure that the problems are related, the problem that I saw on my 2.6 system also went away when I disabled hyper-threading in the bios. It really just seems to me like it is some hard-to-trigger race. -- kr