Stelian Pop wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 03:59:10AM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote:
>
>
>> When I attempted to boot linux-2.5.8-pre1, I got a kernel
>>BUG() for exit.c line 519. The was a small change to to kernel/exit.c
>>in 2.5.8-pre1 which deleted a kernel_lock() call. Restoring that line
>>resulted in a kernel that booted fine. I am sending this email from
>>the machine running that kernel (so I guess a matching release of
>>the kernel lock is already in the code).
>
>
> It should be added that the bug is hit only if CONFIG_PREEMPT is on.
Just to say that
* I hit the bug
* I have CONFIG_PREEMPT
* Adam's fix "works for me (TM)"
--alessandro
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