Re: 2.6.25: random stalls on certain hardware - regression?

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:56:12AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:

[random complete hangs on 2.6.25 but not 2.6.24]

> Definitely try 2.6.26-rc9 (which will soon become 2.6.26, so people will

Ok, tried 2.6.26-rc9 today night - after disabling some drivers which
were not compilable and fixing some places in core code.  It does the
same thing - i.e. it locks up the same way as 2.6.25 did, and locks up
hard as before (no keyboard and network working).

> probably ask you to test patches on top of this kernel) and if it will still 
> lock up, take a look at Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt and maybe
> Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt in kernel sources.

Aha!.  That's very useful information, let me try just that... later
today, after work hours.  Added nmi_watchdog=1 and vga=0x5032 (in a
hope to see the whole thing on the screen) to 2.6.26pre lilo line...

Thanks!