Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:05:34 +0100 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc5 x86 architecture no longer Oopses... |
* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:47:59 +0100
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> > it needs to be found out why the preempt_count suddenly went to zero. Is
> > task struct corruption out of question?
>
> Strictly we shouldn't care - we _know_ we've already hit a kernel bug
> and who knows, perhaps that buggy code did an unbalanced
> preempt_disable(). So make the oops code more robust.
>
> otoh, we don't want to be hiding a bug. What piece of code guarantees
> that we ender the oops code with preemption disabled?
i looked at the patch you sent - and there the proof was in the sections
i quoted.
Ingo
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