2.6.20-rc4 Kernel Oops on Maple

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 15:04 -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> Owen Stampflee wrote:
> > I'm seeing both a sig 5 and a sig 11 in two backtraces during boot on a
> > Maple-based board... both vanilla 2.6.17.13 and 2.6.18.1 work fine on
> > this board.
> > 
> > Anyone have any ideas on what got broken?

> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=8840

... which triggers a WARN_ON() which is _supposed_ to be otherwise
harmless. Unfortunately due to another bug in BUG() handling, the
warning actually kills the machine instead of just bitching a bit:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=8811
 
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dwmw2