Re: timer + fpu stuff locks my console race

[Rik van Riel]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 stian@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> I'm doing some code tests when I came across problems with my program
> locking my console (even X if I'm using a xterm).

Reproduced here, on my test system running a 2.6 kernel.
I did get a kernel backtrace over serial console, though ;)

Pid: 19752, comm:      kernel-hang-bz1
EIP: 0060:[<ffff345c>] CPU: 0
EIP is at 0xffff345c
 EFLAGS: 00000202    Not tainted  (2.6.5-1.332)
EAX: 00000001 EBX: 12005870 ECX: fef32ea8 EDX: 1958f000
ESI: 1958f000 EDI: fef32ea8 EBP: fef32e48 DS: 007b ES: 007b
CR0: 80050033 CR2: 00c4b720 CR3: 003ab000 CR4: 000006d0
Call Trace:
 [<0210dcda>] restore_i387_fxsave+0x18/0x60
 [<0210dd38>] restore_i387+0x16/0x65
 [<021059e5>] restore_sigcontext+0xf2/0x10c
 [<0215b737>] get_user_size+0x30/0x57
 [<02105c13>] sys_sigreturn+0x214/0x23a


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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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