With lockdep we got the following trace after a panic:
Badness at /home/autobuild/BUILD/linux-2.6.28-20090204/kernel/lockdep.c:2878
[...]
Call Trace:
[<0000000000176334>] lock_acquire+0x54/0xbc
[<000000000050b4fe>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x6e/0xdc
[<000000000050b59c>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x30/0x44
[<0000000000504274>] panic+0xd0/0x1e8
[...]
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
Last Breaking-Event-Address:
[<0000000000170e62>] check_flags+0xae/0x15c
possible reason: unannotated irqs-off.
lockdep is right. We missed a trace_hardirq_off in our smp_send_stop
function and smp_send_stop is called before the panic call chain.
Reported-by: Mijo <Safradin mijo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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