Re: 2.0.30 (and pre-2.0.31) OOPS - repeatable, reliable, disgraceful :-)

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@work.smurf.noris.de)
30 May 1997 17:17:12 +0200

torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) writes:
>
> Oops.
>
> +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c Thu May 29 21:45:21 1997
> show_registers(regs);
> -do { int i=2000000000; while (i) i--; } while (0);
> -do { int i=2000000000; while (i) i--; } while (0);
> spin_unlock_irq(&die_lock);

There are three problems with the above code.

- Linus forgot to take it out of his patch.
- It doesn't use udelay().
- Linus' machine is _definitely_ _way_too_fast_.
(As long as it doesn't execute infinite loops in finite time, that's OK,
though...)

;-)

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