Re: 2.6.0-test7: Preempt enabled -> kernel panic

[davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)]

In article <200310172319.59776.markus_schoder@yahoo.de>,
Markus Schoder  <markus_schoder@yahoo.de> wrote:
| When compiling 2.6.0-test7 with preempt I get a kernel panic
| when running the tst-eintr1 test program from the nptl 0.60 package.
| It does not happen every time but running it repeatedly will lead
| to a panic pretty quickly.
| 
| With preempt disabled it's rock solid.
| 
| Stack trace is not always the same but there always seems to
| be infinite recursion. Also sometimes interrupts are disabled
| (no SysRq) and sometimes not.

I usually run 2.6 kernels with both softdog and NMI watchdog, have no
idea if that would help other than to possibly force a reboot.
 
| This is on an Athlon XP, kernel compiled with gcc 3.3.1.

Check the list, there was something about gcc version, don't remember
exactly what.
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