Re: [BUG] Panic in 2.5.4 during bootup after POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX

[Alessandro Suardi]

Robert Love wrote:
> Can both of you try the attached patch (thanks to Mikael Pettersson),
> and tell me if it solves your problem?

Yup, it does :)

Now I'm only IrDA and sound disabled - which isn't bad, since at least
  the streak of 5 kernels in a row either not compiling or oopsing on
  boot (my longest _ever_) has been interrupted ;)

> 
> --- linux-2.5.4/include/asm-i386/smplock.h.~1~  Mon Feb 11 12:21:46 2002
> +++ linux-2.5.4/include/asm-i386/smplock.h      Mon Feb 11 16:55:18 2002
> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
>  #else
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
>  #define kernel_locked()                preempt_get_count()
> -#define global_irq_holder      0
> +#define global_irq_holder      0xFF    /* XXX: NO_PROC_ID */
>  #else
>  #define kernel_locked()                1
>  #endif

--alessandro

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