Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 04:56:37 +0100
From: "Udo A. Steinberg" <us15@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
To: torvalds@osdl.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OOPS] Linux-2.6.0-test9
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On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:01:51 -0800 Linus Torvalds (LT) wrote:

LT> The good news (?) is that you seem to have preempt enabled, and there is one
LT> known (but fairly hard-to-hit) race in UP+preempt locking due to bad
LT> barrier ordering in test9 (and all previous kernels too, for that matter).
LT> That should be fixed in the current BK snapshots, but you can also avoid
LT> the problem by just not enabling preempt.

Yes, the kernel is UP + preempt. I'll try the current BK snapshot and will
let you know should the problem occur again.

-Udo.

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