Re: [Bug #11543] kernel panic: softlockup in tick_periodic() ???

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

[Rafael J. Wysocki - Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 08:54:19PM +0200]
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| from 2.6.26.  Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know
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| Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11543
| Subject		: kernel panic: softlockup in tick_periodic() ???
| Submitter	: Joshua Hoblitt <j_kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
| Date		: 2008-09-11 16:46 (11 days old)
| References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122117786124326&w=4
| Handled-By	: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| 		  Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
| 		  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
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| 

There are really multiple issues touched in report. nmi_watchdog
hangs, rtc device creation, NULL deref...

I've asked Joshua for more information. Since he must to use
netdev tree for a while maybe we could wait 'till next merge
window will be closed and check if nmi_watchdog does work.
So the work in progress.

		- Cyrill -
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