Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4

From: Dave Jones
Date: Tue Dec 23 2014 - 22:02:13 EST


On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 03:59:19PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> But in the meantime please do keep that thing running as long as you
> can. Let's see if we get bigger jumps. Or perhaps we'll get a negative
> result - the original softlockup bug happening *without* any bigger
> hpet jumps.

So I've got this box a *little* longer than anticipated.
It's now been running 30 hours with not a single NMI lockup.
and that's with my kitchen-sink debugging kernel.

The 'hpet off' messages continue to be spewed, and again they're
all in the same range of 4293198075 -> 4294967266

Dave
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