Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 10:45:57AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > >
 > > I've been stuck on this kernel for a few days now trying to prove it
 > > good/bad one way or the other, and I'm leaning towards good, given
 > > that it recovers, even though the traces look similar.
 > 
 > Ugh. But this does *not* happen with 3.16, right? Even the non-fatal case?
 > 
 > If so, I'd be inclined to call it "bad". But there might well be two
 > bugs: one that makes that NMI watchdog trigger, and another one that
 > then makes it be a hard lockup. I'd think it would be good to figure
 > out the "NMI watchdog starts triggering" one first, though.

So I just got a definite "bad" case on 17-rc1. got NMI spew from two
CPUs then the box was a boat anchor. Even keyboard stopped responding,
had to power cycle it to get it back up.

Given it took 2 days to prove this one, I'm really hoping subsequent
bisect branches prove themselves faster.

	Dave

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