Re: Kernel PANIC with 2.6.27-rc6

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From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 12:27 pm

[Tej - Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:04:30AM +0530]
...
| >
| > If assume that git bisect is right - it's hardly possible
| 
| i have bisected it twice n jason mentioned that it looks like some
| kind of nmi race condition.
| 
| but i will bisect it again in rc7 and let you know.
| 
| > that proc_nmi_enabled() related changes introduced this
| > error (ie this commit) - kgdb seems to be not
| > touching /proc/sys/kernel/nmi while doing self-tests.
| >
| > 		- Cyrill -
| >
| 

There was a race in nmi code indeed which was fixed recently in
-tip tree but it was leading to use unitialized vars. So give
me some time to digg a bit. I'll do it tomorrow and write you.
Thanks a lot for pointing out this problem!

		- Cyrill -
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Re: Kernel PANIC with 2.6.27-rc6, Tej, (Thu Sep 25, 7:35 am)
Re: Kernel PANIC with 2.6.27-rc6, Cyrill Gorcunov, (Thu Sep 25, 7:56 am)
Re: Kernel PANIC with 2.6.27-rc6, Cyrill Gorcunov, (Thu Sep 25, 8:47 am)
Re: Kernel PANIC with 2.6.27-rc6, Tej, (Thu Sep 25, 11:34 am)
Re: Kernel PANIC with 2.6.27-rc6, Cyrill Gorcunov, (Thu Sep 25, 12:27 pm)
Re: Kernel PANIC with 2.6.27-rc6, Cyrill Gorcunov, (Thu Sep 25, 12:39 pm)
Re: Kernel PANIC with 2.6.27-rc6, Cyrill Gorcunov, (Fri Sep 26, 1:50 am)
Re: Kernel PANIC with 2.6.27-rc6, Tej, (Fri Oct 3, 3:48 am)
Re: Kernel PANIC with 2.6.27-rc6, Cyrill Gorcunov, (Fri Oct 3, 7:01 am)