From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 20:06:42 +0100 Message-ID: <20070308190642.GA30517@elte.hu> References: <20070305015034.GG3441@stusta.de> <20070308123143.GF5149@mellanox.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Unsubscribe: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jens Axboe , Jeff Chua , pavel@suse.cz, linux-pm@lists.osdl.org, lenb@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, luming.yu@intel.com, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz , Konstantin Karasyov , Greg KH , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Thomas Meyer , Meelis Roos , Alexey Starikovskiy , Janosch Machowinski , vladimir.p.lebedev@intel.com, Ash Milsted , dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, "Eric W. Biederman" List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org * Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 3. When I switch to X (CTRL-ALT-F7), X hangs after drawing a couple of windows > > after waiting for some 10 min, I rebooted. no new messages showed > > up in /var/log/messages > > I think this is likely just more of the disk being buggered, but it > could again be related to NO_HZ (people report time not advancing, and > that would make any X timeout taking forever, and you'd see exactly > your behaviour). Michael - does your 'date' output advance after resume? If not then i'd say it's a NO_HZ related problem. If yes then i'd guess it's the SATA problem. Ingo