Subject : OOPS and panic on 2.6.29-rc1 on xen-x86 Submitter : Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com> Date : 2009-01-12 17:26 References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123178178029065&w=4 Handled-By : Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> This entry is being used for tracking a regression from 2.6.28. Please don't close it until the problem is fixed in the mainline. Reportedly caused by: commit e97a630eb0f5b8b380fd67504de6cedebb489003 Author: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Date: Tue Jan 6 14:39:19 2009 -0800 mm: vmalloc use mutex for purge Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> First-Bad-Commit : e97a630eb0f5b8b380fd67504de6cedebb489003
On Tuesday 20 January 2009, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:32:16PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report > > of recent regressions. > > > > The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions > > from 2.6.28. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know > > (either way). > > > > > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12498 > > Subject : OOPS and panic on 2.6.29-rc1 on xen-x86 > > Submitter : Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com> > > Date : 2009-01-12 17:26 (8 days old) > > First-Bad-Commit: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e97a630eb0f5b8b380fd67504de6cedebb489003 > > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123178178029065&w=4 > > Handled-By : Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> > > > > This one was fixed by backing out the patch to make vmalloc purge > spinlock into a mutex.