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RE: KDB debug question - oops when entering kdb

To: Christian Røsnes <christian@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: KDB debug question - oops when entering kdb
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 20:16:40 -0600 (CST)
Cc: Walt H <waltabbyh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <LKEBKIBHKNEKEKPHFNCCKELOCOAA.christian@xxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
It's true that spinlock debugging should not be turned on in the XFS
kernel until we get the signed/unsigned character differences sorted out.
Turning on spinlock debugging w/ xfs will lead to problems all by
itself...

-Eric

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Christian Røsnes wrote:

> > Walt H wrote:
> >
> > I could be mistaken, but I thought there was a problem with enabling
> > spinlock debugging on an xfs enabled kernel. Is this normally enabled in
> > your .config ?
> >
> > -Walt
>
> No - I normally have debugging turned off. But since
> my machine oopses when I run dbench and kernel 2.4.18,
> I've turned on all debug options. When examing the
> spinlock variable m_sb_lock in the xfs_mount structure
> (for the partition where dbench is run) after an oops,
> it holds the value 0x000000ff.
>
> Christian
>


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