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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 16:40:46 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: [2.4.6] kernel BUG at softirq.c:206!
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On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 03:36:29PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:28:17PM +0200, Manfred H. Winter wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I tried to install kernel 2.4.6 with same configuration as 2.4.5, but
> > > booting failed with:
> > >
> > > kernel BUG at softirq.c:206!
> > 
> > do you have any problem with those patches applied?
> > 
> >         ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.6pre5aa1/00_ksoftirqd-7
> >         ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.6pre5aa1/00_softirq-fixes-4
> > 
> 
> Is there anything in here that fixes a Via/Cyrix specific bug ?

definitely not. The softirq.c:206 bug cannot be caused by any hardware
bug, unless the bug triggers memory corruption exactly in the
tasklet->state word (which sounds unlikely since different people
triggered the bug using different binary kernels that are unlikely to
allocate t->state exactly in the same place).

Andrea
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