Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 11543] New: kernel panic: softlockup intick_periodic() ???
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Sep 12 2008 - 05:13:35 EST
* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I can't work out who called panic(), nor why.
>
> The panic code called the kexec code which called mutex_trylock()
> which called spin_lock_mutex() which then stupidly went and blurted a
> load of debug stuff because of in_interrupt().
agreed - applied your fix in the form below to tip/master - thanks
Andrew.
J, you might want to try tip/master, it includes all known fixes for
this area and this debug improvement as well. You can pick it up via:
http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README
Ingo
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