Your message dated Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:57:47 +0100
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has caused the Debian Bug report #303424,
regarding kernel-source-2.6.8: spinlock assert can crash kernel when compiled
with up/spinlock_debug
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Package: kernel-source-2.6.8
Version: 2.6.8-15
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
If you set in the config CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y and have CONFIG_SMP=n
then the various spinlock checks in the kernel can cause the kernel to
crash, an example of one of these spinlock checks is the code:
BUG_ON(!spin_is_locked(&some_lock));
the BUG() will kill the kernel in this scenario.
These spinlock checks are in Debian's 2.6.8, a patch was accepted into
mainline that fixes this problem, it is located at this URL:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0501.3/1026.html
The Debian kernel configurations do not have this combination of
configs set for the kernel-images, so this is not incredibly critical,
but someone building their own kernel could set this configuration and
run into this problem.
micah
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages kernel-source-2.6.8 depends on:
ii binutils 2.15-5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii bzip2 1.0.2-5 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii fileutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU file management utilities
-- no debconf information
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The 2.6.8 kernel is no longer supported by Debian so I'm closing
your bug report. Please try the 2.6.26 kernel from Debian lenny.
If this issue is still present, let me know.
Thanks.
--
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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