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From: "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Colin LEROY <colin@colino.net>,
	Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: PREEMPT problems
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 14:56:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1080997005.4208.24.camel@thor.asgaard.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1080961566.1425.84.camel@gaston>


On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 05:06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 02:43, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 18:00, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > >
> > > Note that the stuck processes only started with 2.6.5-rc3-ben0 here; the
> > > last iteration of 2.6.5-rc2-ben0 is actually quite usable, albeit not
> > > perfect either.
> >
> > I forgot to mention that the spurious segfaults also seemed much rarer
> > with 2.6.5-rc2-ben0.
>
> I see no reason for that. I just added more protection ;)

Sure enough, -rc2-ben0 is now behaving just as badly as -rc3-ben0.
Probably just fluctuation.

> I also added a WARN_ON(), do you see it triggered in dmesg ?

I'm not sure what those would look like, but

zgrep -i warn /var/log/kern.log*

doesn't seem to yield anything relevant.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer      |     Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
Libre software enthusiast    |   http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-03 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-01 14:32 PREEMPT problems Colin LEROY
2004-04-02  0:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-02  0:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-02 16:00   ` Michel Dänzer
2004-04-02 16:43     ` Michel Dänzer
2004-04-03  3:06       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-03 12:56         ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
2004-04-04  2:20           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-06  0:51           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-06 23:28             ` Michel Dänzer
2004-04-06 23:33               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-02  9:57 ` Wolfram Quester
2004-04-19 14:26 ` ppc4xx_find_bridges( ) hangs kernel on Xilinx ML300 (PCI) Mike Wellington
2004-04-19 19:48 ` Mike Wellington
2004-04-19 20:48   ` Peter Ryser
2004-04-19 20:54     ` Mike Wellington
2004-04-19 20:58     ` PCI - i *thought* the edk2 was what I was using! Mike Wellington
2004-04-19 22:05       ` Peter Ryser
2004-04-19 22:13         ` did you give me the right ml300_edk*.zip link? Mike Wellington

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