Re: 2.6.24-rc6-git12: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:

> Subject		: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 15s! [swapper:0]
> Submitter	: "Parag Warudkar" <parag.warudkar@gmail.com>
> Date		: 2007-12-07 18:14
> References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/7/299
> 		  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9525
> Handled-By	: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
> 		  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> 		  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

i think this only occurs with cpuidle, right? drivers/cpuidle/ and 
CPU_IDLE is new in 2.6.24 so this appears to be a bug in that code (or a 
bug elsewhere triggered by that code), not a regression from v2.6.23.

this commit might also have improved things:

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 commit 2bacec8c318ca0418c0ee9ac662ee44207765dd4
 Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
 Date:   Tue Dec 18 15:21:13 2007 +0100

    sched: touch softlockup watchdog after idling

    touch softlockup watchdog after idling.

    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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albeit Parag reported actual real, human-noticeable delays in system 
behavior and those cannot be false positives.

	Ingo