Message-ID: <47D925D2.9050003@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:32:10 +0530
From: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14ubu (X11/20080306)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
CC: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pbadari@gmail.com,
       benh@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 kernel panic with "Exception: 501 " on powerpc
References: <20080311011434.ad8c8d7d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <47D7D2C9.4090001@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20080312104645.34e58319.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080312175102.GC613@parisc-linux.org> <1205360769.7436.8.camel@concordia.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20080312223300.GE613@parisc-linux.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080312223300.GE613@parisc-linux.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 967
Lines: 26

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 09:26:09AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> down() looks OK, but there's still a spin_lock_irq() in __down_common(),
>> although I don't know if it makes sense for us to be in __down() at that
>> stage.
> 
> The spin_lock_irq in __down_common is correct.  We're going to schedule(),
> so we spin_unlock_irq() to save us passing the flags into the helper
> function.  If we had interrupts disabled on entry, there's an Aieee
> for that.
> 

Hi All,

Sorry for all the noise made :-(, something wrong in the test setup from my end, 
the kernel was 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 not 2.6.25-rc5-mm1. This bug is not seen in the
2.6.25-rc5-mm1 kernel.

-- 
Thanks & Regards,
Kamalesh Babulal,
--
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/