Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm2 hang

Michal Piotrowski
2007-03-08T15:09:01Z

Andrew Morton napisał(a):
> On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:07:21 -0800
> Dave Hansen <hansendc@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 14:16 -0800, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 02:12:16PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
>>>> I'm seeing weird hangs running ltp on 2.6.21-rc2-mm2. It manifests
>>>> itself by the waitpid06 test in LTP hanging. This is very, very
>>>> reproducible in about 5 seconds by adding '-s wait' to the ltp command
>>>> line.
>>>>
>>>> I see 4 waitpid06 processes on my 4-way machine spinning in userspace.
>>>> But, the weird part is that I can't ssh in once this happens, but I can
>>>> log in to the console. I've bisected it down to:
>>>>
>>>> sched-fix-idle-load-balancing-in-softirqd-context
>>> This sounds like an issue in merge we recently had and 2.6.21-rc2-mm2 already
>>> has a fix for this.
>>>
>>> sched-fix-idle-load-balancing-in-softirqd-context-fix.patch
>>>
>>> Can you please apply both
>>> sched-fix-idle-load-balancing-in-softirqd-context
>>> sched-fix-idle-load-balancing-in-softirqd-context-fix.patch
>>> and see if you still see this problem?
>> I was confused that I couldn't find this fix in my patches directory,
>> but I double-checked, and realized that I was still on 2.6.21-rc2-mm1.
>> I must have grabbed the wrong broken-out tarball when I started the
>> bisect. Darn.
>>
>> Anyway, 2.6.21-rc2-mm2 appears to be OK. Sorry for the false alarm.
>>
>
> Ah, OK. I'll undrop those three patches.
>
> Michal, did rc2-mm2 make that weird hang go away for you?
>

No, it works fine for me since -rc2-mm2.

Regards,
Michal

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