From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:57:18 +1100 From: Anton Blanchard Subject: Re: 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 Message-ID: <20040212115718.GF25922@krispykreme> References: <20040212015710.3b0dee67.akpm@osdl.org> <20040212031322.742b29e7.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040212031322.742b29e7.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > This kernel and also 2.6.3-rc1-mm1 have a nasty bug which causes > current->preempt_count to be decremented by one on each hard IRQ. It > manifests as a BUG() in the slab code early in boot. > > Disabling CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP will fix this up. Do not use this > feature on ia32, for it is bust. A few questions spring to mind. Like who wrote that dodgy patch? And any ideas how said person (who will remain nameless) broke ia32? Anton -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org