Hi, On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 09:57 +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > Hi Steven, > > the patch fixes the issues we discussed on the mailing list before and IRC. > > The issue is indeed UP vs SMP and it is totally random. > > spin_is_locked() is a bad assertion because there is no correct answer on UP. > on UP spin_is_locked() has to return either one value or another, always. > > This means that in my setup I am lucky enough to trigger the issue and your > you > are lucky enough not to. > > the patch in attachment removes the bogus calls to BUG_ON and according to > David > (in CC and thanks for the long explanation on the problem) we can rely upon > things like lockdep to find problem that might be trying to catch. > > Please apply. > > Signed-off-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Fabio >
Ah, all becomes clear :-) Thanks for chasing down this issue, the patch is in my git tree now. I guess I must have had some other option turned on when I did my UP build that caused this not to happen, Steve.
