Re: [Bug 7505] Linux-2.6.18 fails to boot on AMD64 machine

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Dec 20 2006 - 05:41:08 EST


On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:59:19 -0500
Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > On 12/19/06, Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > So an external interrupt occurred, the system tried to use interrupt
> > > descriptor #39 decimal (irq 7), but the descriptor was invalid.
> >
> > but the irq is disabled at that time.
> >
> > can you use attached diff to verify if the irq is enable somehow?
>
> But it seems interrupts are on--look at the flags:
>
> RSP: 0018:ffffffff803cdf68 EFLAGS: 00010246
>

down_write()->__down_write()->__down_write_nested()->spin_unlock_irq()->dead

Could someone please test this?


--- a/lib/rwsem-spinlock.c~a
+++ a/lib/rwsem-spinlock.c
@@ -195,13 +195,14 @@ void fastcall __sched __down_write_neste
{
struct rwsem_waiter waiter;
struct task_struct *tsk;
+ unsigned long flags;

- spin_lock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&sem->wait_lock, flags);

if (sem->activity == 0 && list_empty(&sem->wait_list)) {
/* granted */
sem->activity = -1;
- spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sem->wait_lock, flags);
goto out;
}

@@ -216,7 +217,7 @@ void fastcall __sched __down_write_neste
list_add_tail(&waiter.list, &sem->wait_list);

/* we don't need to touch the semaphore struct anymore */
- spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sem->wait_lock, flags);

/* wait to be given the lock */
for (;;) {
_

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