Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:50:09 +0200 | From | Gerhard Brauer <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.{26.2,27-rc} oops on virtualbox |
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 07:33:28PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > We could try to add some nsleep() or msleep() calls within text_poke and > text_poke_early before and after the code modificatoin to see if the > problem disappears. If it does, then that would somewhat confirm the > racy irq disable thesis.
nsleep isn't known here as a function, only references i found is maybe in posix-timers.c.
msleep() is known, but each time i add for ex. msleep(100); in any place in text_poke and/or text_poke_early it get a kernel panic on boot. Here's a screenie: http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/tmp/2008-08-28-132337_724x456_scrot.png
I also tried to work with the isolated changes we have last made, but it seems that only the 3 changes together work. Also i tried to went back to older versions of alternatives.c referenced in: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.26.y.git;a=history;f=arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c;h=65c7857a90ddfc6ff084c6817baba045ced0ad71;hb=v2.6.26
But with my few knowledges i ran in too many errors.
So, have you any further ideas, code that i/we could test? Or - i'm naive - are the "3 changes" we made ready to go in the kernel without to harm something real important than virtualbox?
> Mathieu
Gerhard
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