From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Denys Fedoryshchenko Subject: Re: 2.6.35->2.6.36 regression, vanilla kernel panic, ppp or hrtimers crashing Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 09:47:53 +0200 Message-ID: <201011030947.54464.nuclearcat@nuclearcat.com> References: <20101028070550.GA7647@ff.dom.local> <201011021549.47466.nuclearcat@nuclearcat.com> <20101103073854.GA7279@ff.dom.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Paul Mackerras , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Jarek Poplawski Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20101103073854.GA7279@ff.dom.local> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org I try to reverse and got very weird lockups (no netconsole logs and no watchdog triggered reboot on that remote machine). I will try to cook something to reboot it, because it is very remote machine On Wednesday 03 November 2010 09:38:54 Jarek Poplawski wrote: > On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 03:49:47PM +0200, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: > > I didn't try yet, but i enable more debugs and catch linked list > > corruption. > > It should be very useful but it seems there were no significant changes > in ppp locking between 2.6.35 and .36 except the patch I mentioned, so > it would be nice to check this first and try to fix it properly later. > > Jarek P. > > > Here is dumps from netconsole: > > http://www.nuclearcat.com/ll.txt > > http://www.nuclearcat.com/ll2.txt > > > > I have another PC, also fails to run 2.6.36, but netconsole don't give > > anything. > > Both PC's have strange issue with clock drifting away too much (on 2.6.35 > > and maybe even before). > > > > On Thursday 28 October 2010 10:05:50 Jarek Poplawski wrote: > > > On 2010-10-25 11:22, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > Here is what i got from netconsole > > > > > > > > [ 259.238755] BUG: unable to handle kernel > > > > paging request > > > > at f8ba001c9999 > > > > [ 259.238953] IP: > > > > [] do_select+0x2cc/0x502 > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > It is not easy to do full git bisect(it is semi-embedded distro), but > > > > i can try reversing particular commits, if someone can give idea > > > > which one, and can try debug patches. > > > > > > Hi, > > > Nothing concrete, but you might try reverting this one: > > > > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.36.y.git;a=c > > > ommi tdiff;h=15fd0cd9a2ad24a78fbee369dec8ca660979d57e > > > > > > Jarek P. > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html