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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [1/3] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions v2
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:03:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070601130302.GA16172@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Hu6k5-0001Xm-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>


* Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:

> > Subject    : long freezes on thinkpad t60
> > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/24/100
> > Submitter  : Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
> > Handled-By : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > Status     : problem is being debugged
> 
> This isn't a regression strictly speaking, as 2.6.21 is known to be 
> affected, and older kernels might also be.
> 
> It's non-fatal and only happens under very special circumstances, so 
> it's definitely not a showstopper.
> 
> I don't mind being bugged about this once in a while, this is just for 
> clarification.

i have no better ideas that what you already tried - but unfortunately 
the tracer makes the bug go away and the NMI watchdog crashes your box. 
Btw., nmi_watchdog=2 might have a higher chance of surviving (it can 
still lock up a T60 but with a lower likelyhood).

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-01 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-01 12:20 [1/3] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions v2 Michal Piotrowski
2007-06-01 13:00 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-06-01 13:03   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-06-01 21:23     ` Miklos Szeredi
     [not found] ` <b6a2187b0706010628m3d9ffad5y9a76e22719f439b7@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <6bffcb0e0706010923y5a2bc729x7388b60cc73d94f7@mail.gmail.com>
2007-06-01 16:43     ` Jeff Chua
2007-06-01 17:10       ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-01 21:03         ` Jeff Chua
2007-06-01 20:48 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-02 23:13 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-06-05 15:16   ` James Bottomley

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