From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Irwin Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:40:18 +0000 Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.20.3 Message-Id: <20070314054018.GW18774@holomorphy.com> List-Id: References: <20070313183353.GA7434@kroah.com> <29495f1d0703131457i43883529p5da1502b68ff0948@mail.gmail.com> <29495f1d0703131458j18f9aee1tcd9a2b2ff6ecdf41@mail.gmail.com> <20070313.152054.31641425.davem@davemloft.net> <29495f1d0703131551k5c06170bma138f8c1f1f9c84e@mail.gmail.com> <29495f1d0703131729y56a99d9cj15288e7c18e277a8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <29495f1d0703131729y56a99d9cj15288e7c18e277a8@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Nish Aravamudan Cc: David Miller , greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, stable@kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 05:29:17PM -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: > Ok, truly bizarre, I found that I was not running stock 2.6.20.3, but > had your small hugetlb patch on top. > So I went back and patched 2.6.20.1 with your patch, rebooted, got a > soft lockup. Went back to stock 2.6.20.1 and did not. > I don't see how your patch (C&P below for reference) could make any > difference...Especially because no hugepages were in use at the time. > On patched 2.6.20.1, I was just trying to check if my source tree had > your patch applied (by `patch -p1 < davem.patch`) and got the > soft-lockup I saw in 2.6.20.3 with the patch applied. I am going to > try a clean 2.6.20.3 as well, now. I'm still trying to get on this. -- wli From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965073AbXCNFmT (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:42:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965047AbXCNFmT (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:42:19 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:49757 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965025AbXCNFmS (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:42:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:40:18 -0700 From: Bill Irwin To: Nish Aravamudan Cc: David Miller , greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, stable@kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.20.3 Message-ID: <20070314054018.GW18774@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: Bill Irwin , Nish Aravamudan , David Miller , greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, stable@kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org References: <20070313183353.GA7434@kroah.com> <29495f1d0703131457i43883529p5da1502b68ff0948@mail.gmail.com> <29495f1d0703131458j18f9aee1tcd9a2b2ff6ecdf41@mail.gmail.com> <20070313.152054.31641425.davem@davemloft.net> <29495f1d0703131551k5c06170bma138f8c1f1f9c84e@mail.gmail.com> <29495f1d0703131729y56a99d9cj15288e7c18e277a8@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <29495f1d0703131729y56a99d9cj15288e7c18e277a8@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 05:29:17PM -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: > Ok, truly bizarre, I found that I was not running stock 2.6.20.3, but > had your small hugetlb patch on top. > So I went back and patched 2.6.20.1 with your patch, rebooted, got a > soft lockup. Went back to stock 2.6.20.1 and did not. > I don't see how your patch (C&P below for reference) could make any > difference...Especially because no hugepages were in use at the time. > On patched 2.6.20.1, I was just trying to check if my source tree had > your patch applied (by `patch -p1 < davem.patch`) and got the > soft-lockup I saw in 2.6.20.3 with the patch applied. I am going to > try a clean 2.6.20.3 as well, now. I'm still trying to get on this. -- wli