Re: [patch] fix spinlock-debug looping

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jun 20 2006 - 04:51:47 EST


On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:40:01 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> i obviously agree that any such crash is a serious problem, but is it
> caused by the spinlock-debugging code?

Judging from Dave Olson <olson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>'s report: no. He's getting
hit by NMI watchdog expiry on write_lock(tree_lock) in a !CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK
kernel.
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