Re: 2.6.3-rc2-mm1

[Andrew Morton]

Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.3-rc2/2.6.3-rc2-mm1/

This kernel and also 2.6.3-rc1-mm1 have a nasty bug which causes
current->preempt_count to be decremented by one on each hard IRQ.  It
manifests as a BUG() in the slab code early in boot.

Disabling CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP will fix this up.  Do not use this
feature on ia32, for it is bust.

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