Re: 2.6.13.2 crash on shutdown on SMP machine

[Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@anagramm.de>]

Hello, Zwane!


Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Clemens Koller wrote:
> 
>>Last night, right before thinking about going to bed, my newly
>>installed old SMP machine crashed after a #shutdown -h now
>>as shown below:
>>
>>linux-2.6.13.2
>>old Tyan Tomcat Board, Dual Processor, 2xPentium MMX 200MHz
>>SMP enabled, preemption enabled..
>>
>>[...]
>>Shutdown: hda
>>Power down.
>>Badness in send_IPI_mask_bitmask at arch/i386/kernel/smp.c:168
>>c010fdd5    send_IPI_mask_bitmask+0x65/0x70
>>c0110236    smp_send_reschedule+0x16/0x20
> 
> We've seen this one before, how reproducible is it for you? Could you also 
> please test a 2.6.14-rc -mm kernel?

It's reproducable... I got the same thing with a slightly different configured
2.6.13.2-npe (no preemtion, no acpi, no apm) but beside that, I got other
very strange crashes (page table something thingys?) as well during a CRUX pkgmk
tool to build i.e. samba. So I wasn't able to get the system stable enough for
more serious testing yet.
I am about to grab the latest linus' git tree and try that...

This system was running for a long time with linux without any problems
in the past. But I had to change the hdd (old one was broken) and installed
a new (CRUX) system from scratch... I migrated to 2.6.13.2 and switched over
to udev... I was running memtest86 for about half a day. It didn't show any
problems. Are there good torture tests to check if a system's hw is stable?

Thanks,
-- 
Clemens Koller
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