On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 04:25:24AM -0600, Jordan Breeding wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an smp system and have been using the Robert M. Love preempt
> patches for some time now with no problem. I have also been wanting to
> try out the xfs filesystem for some time now, so since the cvs tree was
> recently updated to the 2.5.5-pre1 kernel which has ALSA and preempt
> included I decided to try making an xfs system. Everything was going
> great, kernel build, recreating my filesystems, etc. until I needed to
> do the final reboot into my new kernel. The resulting smp and preempt
> kernel (also has current acpi and Robert M. Love's networking patches to
> allow contributions to /dev/random) will boot just fine but soon after
> booting the kernel and the userland init level stuff starts up the
> kernel will oops everytime. The only way I have found to make the
> kernel not oops was to boot it using the "nosmp" argument. I assume
> that xfs is tested fairly well with smp since it has been out for a
> while but I am guessing it has no gotten a lot of testing against the
> preempt stuff. Anyway if anyone knows what the problem is or how to fix
> it I would appreciate it greatly. I am attaching a copy of the oops
> (processed and raw) as well as my .config file. Thanks for the help and
> the great file system.
Hi Jordan,
You're not first reporting oops with such backtrace.
Turn off spinlock debugging, since it is not compatible with XFS.
Cheers,
Krzysztof
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