romain griffiths wrote:
>
> PROBLEM:kernel bug while starting gdm
>
> I have just switched from linux-2.3.31 to linux-2.3.32 and gdm (gnome
> display manager like xdm) is crashing.
> It seems to be a kernel error. Im using SMP.
> X debian display XFree86 gnome kernel
There is a bug in the ipc threading code that triggers the new spinlock
debugging code [shm is used by gdm]. Please apply the attached patch.
-- Manfred --------------1A23ECD6531DCADB0BF046CA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="patch-ipclock" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="patch-ipclock"// $Header$ // Kernel Version: // VERSION = 2 // PATCHLEVEL = 3 // SUBLEVEL = 32 // EXTRAVERSION = diff -ur --exclude ptrace.h --exclude Makefile --exclude i386-stubs.c --exclude traps.c --exclude fault.c --exclude ioctls.h 2.3/ipc/util.c build-2.3/ipc/util.c --- 2.3/ipc/util.c Wed Dec 8 23:17:05 1999 +++ build-2.3/ipc/util.c Tue Dec 14 18:22:43 1999 @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ if(ids->seq > ids->seq_max) ids->seq = 0; - ipc_lock(ids,id); + spin_lock(&ids->ary); ids->entries[id].p = new; return id; }
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