On Wednesday 08 July 2009 10:08:52 Jarek Poplawski wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 06:11:27PM +0200, Andres Freund wrote: > > On Tuesday 07 July 2009 15:57:42 Jarek Poplawski wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 03:34:07PM +0200, Andres Freund wrote: > > > ... > > > > > > > Testing wether its triggerable inside a vm might be interesting... > > > > > > Probably similarly to testing without this patch or even less. Maybe > > > I should've warned you but this type of bugs in -rc with possible > > > memory or stack overwrites might be fatal for your data (at least). > > > > Fortunately all the data on that machine should either be replaceable or > > regularly backuped. > > > > Will test later today if that patch bugs. > > If you didn't start yet, it would be nice to use this, btw: > CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU = N > CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS = Y > CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS = Y Unfortunately this just yields the same backtraces during softlockup and not earlier. I did not test without lockdep yet, but that should not have stopped the BUG from appearing, right? Andres