Re: 2.6.25-mm1: not looking good

[Vegard Nossum]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 4/18/08, Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > Vegard Nossum wrote:
>  > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Jason Wessel
>  > > <jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > >>  I assume this was SMP?
...

>  But booting with nosmp on real hardware gets easily above 100,000
>  iterations of the loop (before I reboot), so it seems to be related to
>  that, anyway.

It gets stuck in kgdb_roundup_cpus(), verified by putting a printk()
before and after this call (in kgdb_handle_exception()). Simple, but
effective :-)


Vegard

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