On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 09:41 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 16:26 -0700, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote: > > From: Carl Love > > > > Fix the 64 bit user code backtrace which currently may hang the system. > > > > Signed-off-by: Carl Love > > Cc: Maynard Johnson > > That looks weird. I doubt it's the right fix for the problem. Paul, > I remember this was discussed earlier, did we come up with a proper fix > already ? We decided there probably wasn't a bug there at all: http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-May/056449.html Haven't heard from Carl if he reproduced the hang and traced it to something else. cheers -- Michael Ellerman OzLabs, IBM Australia Development Lab wwweb: http://michael.ellerman.id.au phone: +61 2 6212 1183 (tie line 70 21183) We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. - S.M.A.R.T Person