Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc5 x86 architecture no longer Oopses...

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:47:59 +0100
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > it needs to be found out why the preempt_count suddenly went to zero. Is 
> > task struct corruption out of question?
> 
> Strictly we shouldn't care - we _know_ we've already hit a kernel bug 
> and who knows, perhaps that buggy code did an unbalanced 
> preempt_disable().  So make the oops code more robust.
> 
> otoh, we don't want to be hiding a bug.  What piece of code guarantees 
> that we ender the oops code with preemption disabled?

i looked at the patch you sent - and there the proof was in the sections 
i quoted.

	Ingo
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