* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
i looked at the patch you sent - and there the proof was in the sections i quoted. Ingo -- 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/