Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:02:29 +0200 | From | "Vegard Nossum" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.25-mm1: not looking good |
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On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 4/18/08, Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> wrote: > > Vegard Nossum wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Jason Wessel > > > <jason.wessel@windriver.com> wrote: > > >> I assume this was SMP? ...
> But booting with nosmp on real hardware gets easily above 100,000 > iterations of the loop (before I reboot), so it seems to be related to > that, anyway.
It gets stuck in kgdb_roundup_cpus(), verified by putting a printk() before and after this call (in kgdb_handle_exception()). Simple, but effective :-)
Vegard
-- "The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation." -- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036
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