Re: BUG-lockdep and freeze (was: Arrr! Linux 2.6.18)

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Sep 30 2006 - 16:24:27 EST




On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18/2.6.18-mm1/broken-out/slab-fix-lockdep-warnings.patch
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18/2.6.18-mm1/broken-out/slab-fix-lockdep-warnings-fix.patch
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18/2.6.18-mm1/broken-out/slab-fix-lockdep-warnings-fix-2.patch
>
> Those should rid you off the trace seen under:

Well, the more serious problem seems to be that any warning that causes a
back-trace on x86-64 seems liable to just lock up due to the backtrace
code itself being buggy.

At least I _hope_ its x86-64 only.

Linus
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