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From: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Pedro Ribeiro <pedrib@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WARN_ON at line 380 in kernel/smp.c under 2.6.32.2 + TuxOnIce + KDB
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:58:00 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B3140E8.5080104@tuxonice.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1261510020.4937.73.camel@laptop>

Hi.

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 19:16 +0000, Pedro Ribeiro wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
>>> If you'd enable frame pointers the strack traces would be clearer, but
>>> it looks like a bug in tux on ice, doing kmap_high() with IRQs disabled
>>> or something like that.
> 
>> I enabled frame pointers, is this more useful?
>> http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/5118/dsc01206m.jpg
>> http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/5493/dsc01207k.jpg
>> http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/7470/dsc01208lp.jpg
> 
> Those read more clearly indeed, thanks!
> 
> It really looks like what I said above, in that tux on ice is calling
> kmap() from an inappropriate context.

Ah, I know now what's going on now. You're right. In working around a
reported problem, I've triggered the warning. I'll give it some more
consideration.

Nigel

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-22 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-22 16:51 WARN_ON at line 380 in kernel/smp.c under 2.6.32.2 + TuxOnIce + KDB Pedro Ribeiro
2009-12-22 17:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-22 19:16   ` Pedro Ribeiro
2009-12-22 19:27     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-22 21:58       ` Nigel Cunningham [this message]
2010-01-27 23:03       ` Nigel Cunningham

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