Re: BUG: spinlock recursion (sys_chdir, user_path_at, do_path_lookup...)

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Jan 12 2011 - 05:58:32 EST


On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > [ 75.280000] r5:be961ee4 r4:00063015
> >
> > I started to bisect, but already the first test case showed a different
> > error (my getty dying every few seconds).
> I bisected this one now, the first bad commit is
>
> 9c0729d (x86: Eliminate bp argument from the stack tracing routines)
>
> . It made a x86 specific change to include/linux/stacktrace.h.

As I said on IRC already, that's complete nonsense. The commit changes
a function prototype which is only relevant for x86. So how should
that affect ARM ?

> According to tglx the lockup above "is related to nicks scalability
> stuff". I havn't researched yet the offending commit. Is that
> necessary?

Only if you are interested that the problem gets fixed.

Thanks,

tglx