Re: [BUG] 2.6.29-rc1 - Badness at kernel/sched.c:4440 withCONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Jan 12 2009 - 07:06:17 EST



* Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
>
> While booting up 2.6.29-rc1 kernel on powerpc machine, Kernel
> Badness warning is seen, when compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y

> kernel warning is not seen after reverting the patch.
>
> commit 7317d7b87edb41a9135e30be1ec3f7ef817c53dd
> Author: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Sep 30 20:50:27 2008 +1000
>
> sched: improve preempt debugging

thanks. This has been bisected before by Alexey Zaytsev so i've now
reverted the commit in tip/sched/urgent and will send it to Linus ASAP.
The revert commit can be found below.

Ingo

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