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From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 18rc1 soft lockup
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:02:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152835358.6845.119.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607140058400.12900@scrub.home>

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 01:05 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, john stultz wrote:
> 
> > > Just when I thought it had gotten fixed..
> > > 2.6.18rc1-git6 this time on x86-64..
> > > 
> > > BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#3!
> > > 
> > > Call Trace:
> > >  [<ffffffff80270865>] show_trace+0xaa/0x23d
> > >  [<ffffffff80270a0d>] dump_stack+0x15/0x17
> > >  [<ffffffff802c44e6>] softlockup_tick+0xd5/0xea
> > >  [<ffffffff80250bea>] run_local_timers+0x13/0x15
> > >  [<ffffffff8029cc1d>] update_process_times+0x4c/0x79
> > >  [<ffffffff8027bfeb>] smp_local_timer_interrupt+0x2b/0x50
> > >  [<ffffffff8027c766>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x58/0x62
> > >  [<ffffffff802628ae>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6a/0x70
> > 
> > Hmmm.. grumble. Was this on bootup, or after some time period?
> > 
> > I'm looking into it.
> 
> I don't quite understand how this is clock related, soft lockup uses 
> jiffies and there is nothing clock related in the trace???

Hmmm. Well, its easy to check:

Dave, could you comment out the "clocksource_adjust(...)" line in
kernel/timer.c::update_wall_time() just to check if its the same issue?

thanks
-john



  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-14  0:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-11 19:03 18rc1 soft lockup Dave Jones
2006-07-11 19:13 ` john stultz
2006-07-11 19:16   ` Dave Jones
2006-07-13 22:07     ` Dave Jones
2006-07-13 22:15       ` john stultz
2006-07-13 22:28         ` Dave Jones
2006-07-14  9:22           ` Roman Zippel
2006-07-14 14:09             ` Dave Jones
2006-07-14 23:30               ` john stultz
2006-07-13 23:05         ` Roman Zippel
2006-07-14  0:02           ` john stultz [this message]
2006-07-14  0:12             ` Dave Jones

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