Re: X86_64: 2.6.12-rc3 spontaneous reboot

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Apr 26 2005 - 08:54:57 EST


On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 03:04:47PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >Well, you can revert all my x86-64 changes for testing that went
> >in after rc2. Does that make a difference? If yes then please
> >do a binary search or give me a test case that shows the problem.
>
> It's this one:
>
> [PATCH] x86_64: Fix a small missing schedule race
>
> Uml seems to be a good testcase, the box reliably reboots while uml
> is starting up, usually shortly after the root-filesystem has been
> mounted.

Hmm, thats hard to believe. And are you sure the NMI watchdog
did not trigger? (e.g. did you run it with serial or netconsole)?

-Andi
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