Re: Kernel PANIC with 2.6.27-rc6

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Thu Sep 25 2008 - 15:28:18 EST


[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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