Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:32:10 +0530 | From | Kamalesh Babulal <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 kernel panic with "Exception: 501 " on powerpc |
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Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 09:26:09AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: >> down() looks OK, but there's still a spin_lock_irq() in __down_common(), >> although I don't know if it makes sense for us to be in __down() at that >> stage. > > The spin_lock_irq in __down_common is correct. We're going to schedule(), > so we spin_unlock_irq() to save us passing the flags into the helper > function. If we had interrupts disabled on entry, there's an Aieee > for that. >
Hi All,
Sorry for all the noise made :-(, something wrong in the test setup from my end, the kernel was 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 not 2.6.25-rc5-mm1. This bug is not seen in the 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 kernel.
-- Thanks & Regards, Kamalesh Babulal,
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