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From: Dave C Boutcher <sleddog@us.ibm.com>
To: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@au1.ibm.com, anton@au1.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.15-mm4 failure on power5
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:32:39 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060118033239.GA621@cs.umn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601181119.39872.michael@ellerman.id.au>

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:19:36AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> It booted fine _with_ the patch applied, with DEBUG_MUTEXES=y and n.
> 
> Boutcher, to be clear, you can't boot with kernel-kernel-cpuc-to-mutexes.patch 
> applied and DEBUG_MUTEXES=y ?
> 
> But if you revert kernel-kernel-cpuc-to-mutexes.patch it boots ok?
> 
> This is looking quite similar to another hang we're seeing on Power4 iSeries 
> on mainline git:
> http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc64-dev/2006-January/007679.html

Correct...I die in exactly the same place every time with
DEBUG_MUTEXES=Y.  I posted a backtrace that points into the _lock_cpu
code, but I haven't really dug into the issue yet.  I believe this is
very timing related (Serge was dying slightly differently).

-- 
Dave Boutcher

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-18  3:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-16  6:35 2.6.15-mm4 failure on power5 Serge E. Hallyn
2006-01-16  7:05 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-16 13:00   ` Michael Ellerman
2006-01-16 15:37     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-01-16 21:52       ` Dave C Boutcher
2006-01-17  1:09         ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-17  8:17           ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-17  8:47             ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-17 16:52             ` Dave C Boutcher
2006-01-17 16:55               ` Dave C Boutcher
2006-01-18  6:40                 ` Nathan Lynch
2006-01-18  7:07                   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-18  7:53                     ` Nathan Lynch
2006-01-18  8:08                   ` Nathan Lynch
2006-01-17 12:22         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-01-17 13:32         ` Michael Ellerman
2006-01-17 14:00           ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-18  0:19             ` Michael Ellerman
2006-01-18  3:32               ` Dave C Boutcher [this message]
2006-01-18  6:37                 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-18  6:53                   ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-18  7:04                     ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-18  7:28                     ` Nathan Lynch
2006-01-18  7:37                       ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-18  8:08                         ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-18  8:24                           ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-18  9:02                             ` [patch] work around ppc64 bootup bug by making mutex-debugging save/restore irqs Ingo Molnar
2006-01-18  9:18                             ` [patch] turn on might_sleep() in early bootup code too Ingo Molnar
2006-01-18 10:35                               ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-18 10:43                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-18 11:15                                   ` [patch] make bug messages more consistent Ingo Molnar
2006-01-19  4:39                                   ` [patch] turn on might_sleep() in early bootup code too Zwane Mwaikambo
2006-01-18 10:46                                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-18 11:07                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-18 12:53                                     ` [patch] add trylock_kernel() Ingo Molnar
2006-01-18  7:38                       ` 2.6.15-mm4 failure on power5 Arjan van de Ven

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