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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 15:40:00 +0200
From: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@oracle.com>
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To: Stelian Pop <stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com>
CC: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>,
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Subject: Re: Patch: linux-2.5.8-pre1/kernel/exit.c change caused BUG() at
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Stelian Pop wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 03:59:10AM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> 
> 
>>	When I attempted to boot linux-2.5.8-pre1, I got a kernel
>>BUG() for exit.c line 519.  The was a small change to to kernel/exit.c
>>in 2.5.8-pre1 which deleted a kernel_lock() call.  Restoring that line
>>resulted in a kernel that booted fine.  I am sending this email from
>>the machine running that kernel (so I guess a matching release of
>>the kernel lock is already in the code).
> 
> 
> It should be added that the bug is hit only if CONFIG_PREEMPT is on.

Just to say that

  * I hit the bug
  * I have CONFIG_PREEMPT
  * Adam's fix "works for me (TM)"

--alessandro

  "time is never time at all / you can never ever leave
    without leaving a piece of youth"
                    (Smashing Pumpkins, "Tonight, tonight")

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