Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - several bugs and a crash

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Fri Feb 22 2008 - 12:09:33 EST


On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 01:52:53AM +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Am 22.02.2008 01:40 schrieb Tilman Schmidt:
> >>
> >> [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: fix smp_processor_id() in preemptible code warning
> >
> > Yes, it does; and the system also survives substantially longer.
> > (IOW, it hasn't crashed on me so far.)
>
> Which of course it did the second after I sent off that mail. :-(
> No message at all this time at the time of the crash, even though
> I had "tail -f /var/log/messages" running in an ssh session.
>
> So the nf_conntrack BUG is fixed, but the crash (and of course the
> swapper "spinlock bad magic" BUG) persists.

Do you have CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT set? That would help find any other
bugs similar to nf_conntrack.

Thanx, Paul
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