linux-kernel - Re: BUG-lockdep and freeze (was: Arrr! Linux 2.6.18)

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Date:	Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:03:37 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Eric Rannaud" <eric.rannaud@...il.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...l.org>,
	"Chandra Seetharaman" <sekharan@...ibm.com>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	nagar@...son.ibm.com
Subject: Re: BUG-lockdep and freeze (was: Arrr! Linux 2.6.18)

On Wednesday 04 October 2006 13:58, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> >Proposed patch appended. Jan, what do you think?
> >> 
> >> As said above - I thought we added zero-termination already.
> >
> >For head.S but not for kernel_thread I think. At least I can't
> >find any existing code for kernel_thread().
> 
> 2.6.18-git11 (i386) already has an annotated version of
> kernel_thread_helper() in entry.S, including the pushing of a
> fake (zero) return address. x86-64 has child_rip with the
> added push even in original 2.6.18.

True. 

I wonder why it didn't work then and why my patch fixed the crash. 

Ok the pushl is outside the CFI_STARTPROC

ENTRY(kernel_thread_helper)
        pushl $0                # fake return address for unwinder
        CFI_STARTPROC
..

-Andi

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