Re: 2.6.18 Nasty Lockup

john stultz
2006-09-26T22:51:26Z

On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 00:15 +0300, S.Çağlar Onur wrote:
> 26 Eyl 2006 Sal 15:36 tarihinde, Greg Schafer şunları yazmıştı:
> > This is a _hard_ lockup. No oops, no magic sysrq, no nuthin, just a
> > completely dead machine with only option the reset button. Usually happens
> > within a couple of minutes of desktop use but is 100% reproducible. Problem
> > is still there in a fresh checkout of current Linus git tree (post 2.6.18).
>
> Same symptoms here and its reproducible after starting the irqbalance (0.12 or
> 0.13), if i disable irqbalance then everything is going fine.

Hmm.. Not sure about the connection to irqbalance. You're using the TSC
clocksource, so I'm curious if your cpu TSC's are out of sync. Can you
boot w/ "clocksource=acpi_pm" to see if that resolves it?

thanks
-john