Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S939553AbXHIRSZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 13:18:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765745AbXHIRSP (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 13:18:15 -0400 Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org ([80.68.90.175]:4085 "EHLO hellhawk.shadowen.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932460AbXHIRSO (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 13:18:14 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 18:17:39 +0100 From: Andy Whitcroft To: Andrew Morton , Peter Zijlstra Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, drfickle@us.ibm.com, mel@csn.ul.ie Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm1 -- spinlock bad magic Message-ID: <20070809171739.GA7060@shadowen.org> References: <20070809015106.cd0bfc53.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070809125306.GA3091@shadowen.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070809125306.GA3091@shadowen.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-SPF-Guess: neutral Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 812 Lines: 20 On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:53:06PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > Seeing spinlock bad magic BUG's from x86 and x86_64 test boxes, > fsx-linux seems to be tickling it. Adding Peter as prop_norm_single > seems to be his: Talking to Peter on IRC he suggested I back out the patch below and retest on these machines: mm-dirty-balancing-for-tasks One machine seems to have hung elsewhere (probabally another bug sigh), and one has run the fsx-linux tests successfully. So this patch does seem suspect. I will report back on the other tests when they complete. -apw - 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/