Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-12T06:35:51Z

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 06:42 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > Hrm... I just noticed you have CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled... Can you
> > test without it and let me know if it makes a difference ?
>
> IIRC I had disabled that for rc2-mm2 and it didn't make a difference.
> I'll disable it again when I try older versions.
>
> I just got another crash with rc2-mm3. The crash was a bit different
> this time, I still could move the mouse pointer and the logs contained
> some info:

Ok, what about non-mm ? (just plain rc2)

Ben.