Re: [PROBLEM] 2.6.22-rc2 panics on x86-64 with slub

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue May 22 2007 - 05:26:03 EST



* Srihari Vijayaraghavan <sriharivijayaraghavan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just another data point: with the flick of CONFIG_SMP, I'm in control
> of the hangs/crashes ;-).
>
> Yup, with CONFIG_SMP=n, I'm unable to reproduce the problem. It's
> quite stable actually (having completed a dozen kernel compile
> sessions so far).
>
> I suspected this after seeing spinlock issues on both cores of my CPU
> in my earlier report. Just a stab in the dark with some unexpected
> luck :-).

could you enable CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING - does it spit out any warning
into the syslog?

Ingo
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