Re: Linux 2.6.30-rc8 [also: VIA Support]

Michael S. Zick
2009-06-04T16:17:11Z

On Thu June 4 2009, Duane Griffin wrote:
> 2009/6/4 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>:
> > On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Michael S. Zick wrote:
> >> Well, that one isn't anything to brag about"
> >
> > So what's the problem on that machine? Is the VIA C7-M (or some random
> > device in it) just buggy and it eventually hangs, or what? Has _any_
> > kernel ever worked on that machine for longer than an hour or two?
>
> There have been reports of hangs on various VIA C7 machines going back
> a year now. The version of the kernel doesn't seem to matter, but the
> version of glibc does. Unfortunately there hasn't been much progress
> in getting to the bottom of it.
>

There have been recent tweaks to the futex service in the
kernel, this might interact with how a particular glibc
expects them to work.

I also add a few tweaks in my local patches to futex.etc,
so it may need more in mainline (un-proven at this point).

It seems to make a difference with pulse-audio - -
which is my "test program".

Mike
> See here (and other linked reports):
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228263
>
> Cheers,
> Duane.
>