From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Joseph Parmelee <jparmele@wildbear.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Binutils test suite freezes kernel
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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:11:09 -0800
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1211071634440.1754@bruno> (Joseph Parmelee's
	message of "Wed, 7 Nov 2012 17:56:19 -0600 (CST)")
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Joseph Parmelee <jparmele@wildbear.com> writes:

> Greetings:
>
> The gas test suite in recent binutils snapshots from
> ftp://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/snapshots/ consistently freezes my i386
> custom-built kernels.  This may be a kernel configuration problem but if so
> it has manifested only recently.  I have been building kernels since 1995
> and this is the first instance I have seen where the kernel is brought down
> by a non-privileged user space process.  AIUI this should be impossible
> regardless of what that process is doing.  The problem affects all kernels
> between 3.6.2 and 3.6.6.  These are merely the kernels were I have seen the
> problem; it may well affect other kernels.

A common cause of this would be running out of memory.
While this should eventually resolve itself it may take a long time
and the system may appear frozen.

I would rerun with an appropiate ulimit setting.

-Andi

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ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only
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