Re: Crash report 2.1.120

PJ (pjordan-kernel@blackwire.com)
Thu, 17 Sep 1998 12:55:37 -0600

> Process //
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> Code: 89 10 85 d2 74 03 89 42 04 b8 01 00 00 00 c7 43 04 00 00 00
> Aiee, killing interrupt handler
> Those number are exactly as shownn .. the rest is of the screen and I can't scroll it up.
> The machine is rock solid.
> Compiled with egcs-1.03....

Ok, I finally got an EIP !
Traced it into system map as smp_local_timer_interrupt.
This was a different crash thatn the one above but probably of same origin.

I have now applied 2.1.121 and 2.1.122 and recompiled WITHOUT SMP
by commenting it out of the makefile.

So far no crash...
I'll send this off before I try to force it.
Whats the reasoning for not having SMP as a config option ??

somewhere else in the kernel source code I can find the words
"to protect the innocent" with regards to a feature being disabled.

Either way I still think this is a bug. I don't have a multiprocessor machine,
but the kernel should not freak thinking I do.

Peter

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