Re: Linux v3.11 and v3.12 bugs - history question

[Jeff Merkey]

Hi Greg,

I think I found it.  Going back through all the commits on
linux-stable.  I love this git thing, it's totally fucking cool.  What
a great idea, it's such a time and labor saving tool, it only took me
ten years to start using it.

Jeff


On 12/13/15, Jeff Merkey <linux.mdb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> You might know the answer to this and save me days of running down
> bugs in old kernels.
>
> I am completing full regression testing of the mdb debugger on all
> linux versions back to 2.6.37 and I am am almost done.  I've
> encountered some nasty bugs in these two linux release lines.  These
> bugs are documented all over the web about these versions.
>
> https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=37186
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=990955
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/12/31
>
> I would like to put a fix into my patches for them to make them stable
> enough to use.  The bug is:
>
> BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/0/0/0x10000100
>
> across several functions which shows up when I have held the
> processsors in the debugger for several minutes but only if I take a
> breakpoint AT INTERRUPT.  It does not show up otherwise.    It shows
> up when I exit the debugger on either v3.11 or v3.12.
>
> I've tracked it down to a linux bug, and it does not affect any other
> versions.
>
> Do you recall what caused this bug (I have seen comments its in
> several drivers) and point me to the commit that fixed it or thread
> because as near as I can tell, it affects these versions ONLY.  I have
> seen the "BUG scheduling while atomic" fire off on other functions on
> these versions but only on these two releases.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
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