From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: PREEMPT problems From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Colin LEROY , Linux/PPC Development In-Reply-To: <1080961566.1425.84.camel@gaston> References: <1b6001c417f6$229c2a70$3cc8a8c0@epro.dom> <1080867387.1203.19.camel@gaston> <1080921611.11826.13.camel@thor.asgaard.local> <1080924194.11826.27.camel@thor.asgaard.local> <1080961566.1425.84.camel@gaston> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Message-Id: <1080997005.4208.24.camel@thor.asgaard.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 14:56:45 +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/