Re: 2.4.22-pre lockups (now decoded oops for pre10)

Jim Gifford
2003-08-13T15:21:47Z

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcelo Tosatti" <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: "Stephan von Krawczynski" <skraw@ithnet.com>
Cc: <akpm@osdl.org>; <andrea@suse.de>; <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>;
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; <mason@suse.com>; <green@namesys.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: 2.4.22-pre lockups (now decoded oops for pre10)

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>
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 12:33:28 -0300 (BRT)
> > Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> >
> > > That will provide further information yes. We can then know if the
problem
> > > is reiserfs specific or not, which is VERY useful.
> > >
> > > Again, thanks for your efforts helping us track down the problem.
> >
> > Status update:
> >
> > uptime:
> > 12:45pm up 2 days 19:39, 18 users, load average: 2.02, 2.05, 2.06
> >
> > Running SMP. So far no crash happened under ext3.
> > Still I see the tar-verification errors. None on the first day, 2 on the
second
> > and 2 today so far.
> > I see a growing possibility that the formerly crashes are directly
linked to a
> > reiserfs problem, maybe broken SMP-locking.
> > If it survives until sunday I will revert all ext3 back to reiserfs to
be sure
> > it still crashes, then ideas for patches will be welcome :-)
>
> Great you tracked it down. Your previous traces almost always involved
> reiserfs calls, which is another indicator that reiserfs is probably the
> problem here.
>
> Chris, Oleg, it might be nice if you guys could look at previous oops
> reports by Stephan.
>
Marcelo,
Could this be related to the issues I was having. Since rc1 I have not
had any problems, and I have all the iptables stuff running again. My
machine is smp and is using ext3.