From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from pippin.tausq.org (gandalf.tausq.org [64.81.244.94]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61125482A for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 08:54:30 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 07:34:52 -0800 From: Randolph Chung To: Michael Wood , parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, debian-hppa@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] new gcc-default for hppa Message-ID: <20030130153452.GJ11363@tausq.org> Reply-To: Randolph Chung References: <20030126044656.GB6057@dsl2.external.hp.com> <200301260509.h0Q59ntl001762@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> <20030127072615.GF8487@tausq.org> <20030128073101.GD20940@tausq.org> <20030128074607.GE20940@tausq.org> <20030130153832.GA12052@marmite.its.uct.ac.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20030130153832.GA12052@marmite.its.uct.ac.za> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: > Since you seem to have found the problem, this is probably not relevant, > but I found this on Kernel Traffic: > > Alan remarked, "2.5.x crashes erratically and randomly under > high tty/pty load. At the moment I'm assuming this is the tty > code. That means we can't decide not to fix it since its already > fatally broken." Close by, Linus Torvalds said he didn't think > the TTY code was in such bad shape. He guessed there were just a > few locking problems that had crept in, coupled with the > preemption patches' tendency to expose existing locking bugs. > > It sounds vaguely related, except maybe for the "high load" bit. i think this is a completely different problem. the one Grant and I found is very parisc and compiler specific. randolph