On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > tis 2005-04-19 klockan 11:33 +0200 skrev Jesper Juhl: > > Everything is fine with 2.6.12-rc2, 2.6.12-rc2-mm1, 2.6.12-rc2-mm2 & > > earlier kernels as well, but 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 seems to have a problem. > > I don't know what's causing this, all I can do at the moment is describe > > the symptoms. > > > > Certain applications (krootimage and ksplash from KDE 3.4 are 100% > > reproducible test cases) that used to run fine have started crashing with > > SIGSEGV on 2.6.12-rc2-mm3. I see nothing suspicious in dmesg. > > I'm including dmesg output as well as strace output from krootimage and > > ksplash below. > > If someone could give me a hint as to what the cause of this could be or > > what to try in order to track it down I'd appreciate it. > > This is 100% reproducible. > > Try backing out > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/broken-out/sched-unlocked-context-switches.patch > That did the trick. All the apps that segfaulted previously now seem to be running just fine again. Are Ingo, Nick & Andrew aware that this patch has issues?
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