Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

[Juergen Kreileder]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 06:42 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
>> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 03:18 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
>>>> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> 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)

I've tried older kernels now.  rc1-mm1 locks up (no logs); plain rc1
seems to be OK (running fine for several hours now).

        Juergen

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