Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936351AbWK3M3a (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:29:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936336AbWK3M3J (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:29:09 -0500 Received: from ns2.uludag.org.tr ([193.140.100.220]:21154 "EHLO uludag.org.tr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936355AbWK3MVi (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:21:38 -0500 From: "=?utf-8?q?S=2E=C3=87a=C4=9Flar?= Onur" Reply-To: caglar@pardus.org.tr Organization: =?utf-8?q?T=C3=9CB=C4=B0TAK_/?= UEKAE To: Zachary Amsden Subject: Re: Fix for OpenSUSE kernel bug (was Re: [Opps] Invalid opcode) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:21:43 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Gerd Hoffmann , Andrew Morton , Daniel Hecht , Sahil Rihan , Trampus Richmond , betts@vmware.com References: <200611051507.37196.caglar@pardus.org.tr> <200611051917.56971.caglar@pardus.org.tr> <456E7DE2.5070808@vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <456E7DE2.5070808@vmware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart61314288.vR9c29H9zr"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200611301621.51240.caglar@pardus.org.tr> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1582 Lines: 48 --nextPart61314288.vR9c29H9zr Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi; 30 Kas 2006 Per 08:44 tarihinde, Zachary Amsden =C5=9Funlar=C4=B1 yazm=C4= =B1=C5=9Ft=C4=B1:=20 > I'm proposing this as a fix for your bug. Having tasklets scheduled > before softirqd gets to run might be somewhat backwards, but there is > nothing I can find wrong about it from a correctness point of view. > Better to boot the kernel even when compiled with bug checking on, I thin= k. > > This bug started becoming apparent in 2.6.18 because of some rework with > the CPU hotplug code, but in theory, it exists at least all the way back > to 2.6.10, which is as far as I looked backwards in time. I cannot reproduce that opps with 2.6.18.4 + your patch any longer, so at=20 least works for me :), thanks Cheers =2D-=20 S.=C3=87a=C4=9Flar Onur http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~caglar/ Linux is like living in a teepee. No Windows, no Gates and an Apache in hou= se! --nextPart61314288.vR9c29H9zr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFbuj/y7E6i0LKo6YRAunSAJ43j9p8TI6GtEibeBwNyPEEs94dRgCg04QM ZwQNiTYm2ObELK558cB3TAE= =3Pz7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart61314288.vR9c29H9zr-- - 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/