On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:47:59 +0100 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/