On 10/09/2010 05:12 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> On 10/08/2010 11:10 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >>>> [ 59.449366] IP: [<ffffffff8147d715>] acpi_pci_irq_find_prt_entry+0x85/0xb1 >>> >>> I can hardly see how this is related to the irq work. >>> >>>> [ 71.076886] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Tainted: G W 2.6.36-rc7-tip-yh-01944-ge8a4c5f-dirty #171 /Sun Fire x4800 >>>> [ 71.096947] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8141e232>] [<ffffffff8141e232>] strcmp+0x4/0x21 >>> >>> Ditto. >> >> don't know. >> >> but without merging your branch, those problems don't come out. >> >> only thing i can think about that you real free irq code could >> stress or expose other subsystem's bug etc. > > The first crash is in early boot and that code just fiddles with acpi > internal stuff. > > Is that fully reproducible ? If yes, any chance you can bisect it ? > not sure if it is right... the offending commit looks right. 2d80f45874f511aa31c34ab90cbcc5ebc2d62b1d is the first bad commit commit 2d80f45874f511aa31c34ab90cbcc5ebc2d62b1d Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Sep 27 20:55:03 2010 +0200 genirq: Query arch for number of early descriptors sparse irq sets up NR_IRQS_LEGACY irq descriptors and archs then go ahead and allocate more. Use the unused return value of arch_probe_nr_irqs() to let the architecture return the number of early allocations. Fix up all users. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> :040000 040000 36e0def4d755eb235d8fce59ad821c6c6e8e1ca7 e74c903f10df76af20433a3fc6500b4e25de32d5 M arch :040000 040000 9015ff96c3853c81e3848e0921ccde3f56b8d452 c37e782686d0c3c99b42c15258ad07cace9eb415 M include :040000 040000 9ea7cd1eda18286f55b47941ad9ebd810a341b9a c1a57bc71c6769851659913d7b3f1d46577b90b3 M kernel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html