Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755153AbaKPKGl (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Nov 2014 05:06:41 -0500 Received: from ud10.udmedia.de ([194.117.254.50]:37954 "EHLO mail.ud10.udmedia.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752782AbaKPKGj (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Nov 2014 05:06:39 -0500 Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 11:06:36 +0100 From: Markus Trippelsdorf To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Dave Jones , Linux Kernel , the arch/x86 maintainers Subject: Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4 Message-ID: <20141116100636.GA340@x4> References: <20141114213124.GB3344@redhat.com> <20141115213405.GA31971@redhat.com> <20141116014006.GA5016@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2014.11.15 at 22:33 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > > > I'll try that next, and check in on it tomorrow. > > > > No luck. Died even faster this time. > > Yeah, and your other lockups haven't even been TLB related. Not that > they look like anything else *either*. > > I have no ideas left. I'd go for a bisection Before starting a bisection you could try and disable transparent_hugepages. There are strange bugs, that were introduced during this merge-window, in this area. See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/4/144 https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/4/904 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/124451 -- Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/