Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-12T05:21:03Z

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 03:18 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
>
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/
>
> I'm getting frequent lockups on my PowerMac G5 with rc2-mm3.
>
> 2.6.11-mm4 works fine but all 2.6.12 versions I've tried (all since
> -rc1-mm3) lock up randomly. The easiest way to reproduce the problem
> seems to be running Azareus. So it might be network related, but I'm
> not 100% sure about that, there was a least one deadlock with
> virtually no network usage.
>
> BTW, what's the SysRq key on recent Apple USB keyboards? Alt/Cmd-F13
> doesn't work for me.
>

Hrm... I just noticed you have CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled... Can you test
without it and let me know if it makes a difference ?

Ben.