linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm1 -- spinlock bad magic

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Message-ID: <20070809171739.GA7060@shadowen.org>
Date:	Thu, 9 Aug 2007 18:17:39 +0100
From:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, drfickle@...ibm.com, mel@....ul.ie
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm1 -- spinlock bad magic

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:53:06PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Seeing spinlock bad magic BUG's from x86 and x86_64 test boxes,
> fsx-linux seems to be tickling it.  Adding Peter as prop_norm_single
> seems to be his:

Talking to Peter on IRC he suggested I back out the patch below and
retest on these machines:

	mm-dirty-balancing-for-tasks

One machine seems to have hung elsewhere (probabally another bug sigh),
and one has run the fsx-linux tests successfully.  So this patch does
seem suspect.  I will report back on the other tests when they complete.

-apw
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