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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kernel@pengutronix.de,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>, Soren Sandmann <ssp@redhat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: BUG: spinlock recursion (sys_chdir, user_path_at, do_path_lookup ...)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:57:50 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1101121153370.12146@localhost6.localdomain6> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110112075229.GZ24920@pengutronix.de>

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On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > [   75.280000]  r5:be961ee4 r4:00063015
> > 
> > I started to bisect, but already the first test case showed a different
> > error (my getty dying every few seconds).
> I bisected this one now, the first bad commit is
> 
> 	9c0729d (x86: Eliminate bp argument from the stack tracing routines)
> 
> .  It made a x86 specific change to include/linux/stacktrace.h.

As I said on IRC already, that's complete nonsense. The commit changes
a function prototype which is only relevant for x86. So how should
that affect ARM ?

> According to tglx the lockup above "is related to nicks scalability
> stuff".  I havn't researched yet the offending commit.  Is that
> necessary?

Only if you are interested that the problem gets fixed.

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-12 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-11 11:05 BUG: spinlock recursion (sys_chdir, user_path_at, do_path_lookup ...) Uwe Kleine-König
2011-01-12  7:52 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-01-12 10:57   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2011-01-12 12:03     ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-01-12 12:35       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-12 12:48         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-12 12:56           ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-01-18 16:59 ` Maciej Rutecki
2011-01-18 22:19   ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-19  7:43     ` Uwe Kleine-König

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