SMP kernel panic with traceback
Daniel Eischen
eischen at vigrid.com
Wed Sep 17 19:46:08 PDT 2003
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>
> > I'm getting crashes when trying to debug mozilla (under KSE).
> > The panic message is "panic: absolutely cannot call smp_ipi_shootdown
> > with interrupts already disabled". Attached is the trace.
> > Any ideas?
>
> Eeek. Looks like I forgot an attachment to i386/machdep.c 1.468 2001/08/13
> (use interrupt gates instead of trap gates for breakpoint and trace traps).
> Keeping interrupts disabled is only correct for these traps if they are
> from kernel mode. It's surprising how few problems this has caused.
This patch seems to fix the problem. Care to commit it? Thanks!
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Dan Eischen
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