Re: 2.6.10-rc1-mm2: konqueror crash because of cputime patches

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sun Oct 31 2004 - 21:48:29 EST


[intentional fullquote]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 04:51:23PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > Yes, on a Dual Opteron with web browsing. Similar with firefox.
> >
> > Can you, please, send me your .config?
> >
> > There's something nasty going on here.
> >
> > For konqueror vs 2.6.10-rc1-mm2, I have the problem reproduced on the dual
> > Opteron machine, although the konqueror itself is different (3.3.1) than on
> > the UP box (3.2.3): it (ie the konqueror) starts normally, but crashes when
> > try to open an arbitrary web page (eg linuxtoday.com).
>
> Well, an arbitrary web page need not be sufficient. Apparently, the web page
> needs to contain JavaScript to make konqueror crash. Also, when JavaScript
> is disabled in konqueror, it works normally, so I assume that it crashes on
> an attempt to execute JavaScript.
>
> [-- snip]
> > I think I'll first try to play with the .config settings. Then, I'll search
> > through the patches.
>
> Done. Evidently, if the cputime patches:
>
> cputime-introduce-cputime-fix.patch
> cputime-introduce-cputime.patch
> cputime-missing-pieces.patch
>
> are reversed, konqueror works fine again on 2.6.10-rc1-mm2 (verified on two
> different systems).
>
> I have created a bugzilla entry for it at:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3675
>
> If you need any more information, please let me know and I'll post it there.

Ok thanks. I will leave it to Martin to figure out.

-Andi
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