Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:01:50 -0700 | From | Tom Rini <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.7-mm7 |
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On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 02:11:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > jhf@rivenstone.net (Joseph Fannin) wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:50:25PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.7/2.6.7-mm7/ > > > > > +detect-too-early-schedule-attempts.patch > > > > > > Catch attempts to call the scheduler before it is ready to go. > > > > With this patch, my Powermac (ppc32) spews 711 (I think) > > warning messages during bootup. > > hm, OK. It could be that the debug patch is a bit too aggressive, or that > ppc got lucky and happens to always be in state TASK_RUNNING when these > calls to schedule() occur. > > Maybe this task incorrectly has _TIF_NEED_RESCHED set? > > Anyway, ppc guys: please take a look at the results from > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.7/2.6.7-mm7/broken-out/detect-too-early-schedule-attempts.patch > and check that the kernel really should be calling schedule() at this time > and place, let us know?
Now that kallsyms data is OK, I took a quick look.. and all of this comes from generic code, at least on the machine I tried. So if the code shouldn't be calling schedule() then, it's a more generic problem..
... or I'm not following.
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