From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16CA267D08 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:36:58 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: glibc-2.5 test suite hangs/crashes the machine From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto In-Reply-To: <4545E38B.5010702@ubuntu.com> References: <45419F79.2020300@ubuntu.com> <1162177334.25682.144.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4545E38B.5010702@ubuntu.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:36:50 +1100 Message-Id: <1162240610.25682.182.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Jeff Bailey , Paul Mackerras , Ben Collins List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 12:35 +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Does that patch fixes it ? > > > > tested with kernel .17 and headers from .19 and the build hangs. Still tons of > Zl processes around. > > On the note building with kernel .19 and .19 headers it all goes smooth. Ok, so there's a different issue from what I've found. You haven't by chance noted what those processes are (which test case typically) ? Also, there's a sysrq to get a backtrace of all pending processes, though I don't remember which one off the top of my mind, might be useful to have a look though. Ben.