Re: Hard freeze with 2.5.65-mm1

[Alexander Hoogerhuis <alexh@ihatent.com>]

Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> writes:

> Alexander Hoogerhuis <alexh@ihatent.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've had I/O stall a few times while watching movies, but only the
> > mplayer process hung, and I could break it off and restart and it
> > woudl fun again for a few minutes.
> 
> This is a bug in the new nanosleep code.  mplayer asks the kernel for a 50
> millisecond sleep and the kernel gives it a two month sleep instead.
> 
> Please set INITIAL_JIFFIES to zero and retest.
> 
> With what compiler are you building your kernels?
> 

>From Gentoo's unstable "branch":

alexh@lapper ~/src/linux/linux-2.5.65-mm2 $ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/specs
Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.2-r1/work/gcc-3.2.2/configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.2 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2/info --enable-shared --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i686-pc-linux-gnu
--with-system-zlib --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,f77,objc,java --enable-threads=posix --enable-long-long --disable-checking --enable-cstdio=stdio --enable-clocale=generic --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/include/g++-v3 --with-local-prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared --enable-nls --without-included-gettext
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2.2
alexh@lapper ~/src/linux/linux-2.5.65-mm2 $ ld -v
GNU ld version 2.13.90.0.18 20030206
alexh@lapper ~/src/linux/linux-2.5.65-mm2 $

mvh,
A
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