Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261448AbVDSK5I (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 06:57:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261451AbVDSK5H (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 06:57:07 -0400 Received: from mailfe03.swip.net ([212.247.154.65]:4588 "EHLO swip.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261393AbVDSK4y (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 06:56:54 -0400 X-T2-Posting-ID: jLUmkBjoqvly7NM6d2gdCg== Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 regression - certain applications get SIGSEGV but are fine with 2.6.12-rc2-mm2 From: Alexander Nyberg To: Jesper Juhl Cc: LKML In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:56:42 +0200 Message-Id: <1113908202.2067.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1159 Lines: 23 tis 2005-04-19 klockan 11:33 +0200 skrev Jesper Juhl: > Everything is fine with 2.6.12-rc2, 2.6.12-rc2-mm1, 2.6.12-rc2-mm2 & > earlier kernels as well, but 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 seems to have a problem. > I don't know what's causing this, all I can do at the moment is describe > the symptoms. > > Certain applications (krootimage and ksplash from KDE 3.4 are 100% > reproducible test cases) that used to run fine have started crashing with > SIGSEGV on 2.6.12-rc2-mm3. I see nothing suspicious in dmesg. > I'm including dmesg output as well as strace output from krootimage and > ksplash below. > If someone could give me a hint as to what the cause of this could be or > what to try in order to track it down I'd appreciate it. > This is 100% reproducible. Try backing out http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/broken-out/sched-unlocked-context-switches.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/