Re: [OOPS] [XEN] OOPS early after boot on master

From: Ian Campbell
Date: Mon Jun 15 2009 - 03:22:30 EST


On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 18:55 -0400, Bryan Donlan wrote:
> On further analysis, it seems that that's a red herring - disabling PV
> spinlocks just makes it occur less often, I think... I'm currently
> still bisecting it; it's complicated by other OOPS-causing bugs having
> existed in the interim, but it definitely existed before the
> introduction of CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS.

It's worth bearing in mind that prior to CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS the
pv spinlock functionality was already present but not optional so it's
not unlikely that an issue with pv spinlocks could predate the addition
of the option.

Ian.


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