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From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
To: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>,
	Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>,
	linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pagefaults and hang with 5.15.11
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2022 15:36:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9063d674-4c9a-bf15-95e2-5400d0dfa704@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9f531648-c222-f203-8bf0-04f7199c115c@bell.net>

On 1/23/22 14:51, John David Anglin wrote:
> On 2022-01-23 6:53 a.m., Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
>> Am Sonntag, 26. Dezember 2021, 18:22:12 CET schrieb John David Anglin:
>>> On 2021-12-26 11:21 a.m., Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
>>>> [139181.966881] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/rcu/tree.c:613
>>>> rcu_eqs_enter.constprop.0+0x8c/0x98
>>> This is probably not reproducible. You might try this change from Sven
>>> I haven't found 5.15.11 to be stable.
>> When I was running 5.15.0 I had uptimes of 21 and 29 days before crashes, and
>> then 5 days before I rebooted into 5.15.11 to test that.
>>
>> With 5.15.11 my longest uptime was 5 days.
>>
>> I have switched to 5.15.4 afterwards, which is now already up for 2 weeks. I
>> see regular userspace crashes with that, usually gcc or ld as the machine is
>> mainly building things, which seems to happen way more often than it has
>> happened with 5.15.0 for me.
> The problem is how to find the changes responsible for this instability?  I'm sure they aren't
> caused by parisc specific changes.  It would take a very long time to bisect and test, and it would
> be very easy to make a mistake bisecting because the issues are close to random.
>
> So the best we can do is to analyze specific problems and try to fix them.

I also faced problems with 5.15.
So I switched all hppa debian buildd servers to 5.10.90 and they are running stable since 14 days now.
I think 5.15 isn't used widely yet, so there are probably still many non-parisc related issues in it.

Helge

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-23 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-26 16:21 pagefaults and hang with 5.15.11 Rolf Eike Beer
2021-12-26 17:22 ` John David Anglin
2021-12-27 14:30   ` Rolf Eike Beer
2021-12-28 21:55     ` Rolf Eike Beer
2022-01-01 22:12       ` Sven Schnelle
2022-01-01 22:28         ` Rolf Eike Beer
2022-01-02 10:24           ` Sven Schnelle
2022-01-02 22:42             ` John David Anglin
2022-01-02 22:53               ` Helge Deller
2022-01-02 23:14                 ` John David Anglin
2022-01-05  7:42         ` Rolf Eike Beer
2022-01-05 12:08           ` Helge Deller
2022-01-06  0:40         ` Rolf Eike Beer
2022-01-23 11:53   ` Rolf Eike Beer
2022-01-23 13:51     ` John David Anglin
2022-01-23 14:36       ` Helge Deller [this message]
2022-01-24  6:41     ` Rolf Eike Beer
2022-01-24 17:24       ` John David Anglin
2022-01-24 17:41         ` John David Anglin
2022-01-25 16:54           ` Rolf Eike Beer
2022-01-25 17:26             ` John David Anglin

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