Re: Oops trace of 2.2.9-ac2 lockups

Thierry Danis (danis@mail.dotcom.fr)
Mon, 7 Jun 1999 09:55:00 +0200


On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 09:20:20PM -0400, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> After considerable grief, I got serial console output working and captured
> two of the lockups.
>
> These are 100% repeatable, and I'll be delighted to test any potential
> fixes.
>
> Once again, I'm only seeing these with 2.2.7-ac4 and 2.2.9-ac2. Vanilla
> 2.2.9 works fine, as does 2.2.7-ac2 - if that helps narrow things..
>
> Steve
>
>
[...]

I have reported such lockups recently with 2.2.7-ac4 and 2.2.9-ac1
but not with other 2.2.7 versions, and not with plain 2.2.9
(loops in truncate_inode_pages).

Adding the kernel debugger produces crashes and no more lockups.

I (and others) think it may be related to NFS.

A+,

-- 
	Thierry Danis

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