Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753440AbaKRCv2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:51:28 -0500 Received: from mail-vc0-f182.google.com ([209.85.220.182]:37879 "EHLO mail-vc0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752287AbaKRCv0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:51:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20141118023930.GA2871@redhat.com> References: <20141114213124.GB3344@redhat.com> <20141115213405.GA31971@redhat.com> <20141116014006.GA5016@redhat.com> <20141117170359.GA1382@redhat.com> <20141118020959.GA2091@redhat.com> <20141118023930.GA2871@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:51:25 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 1iBFajSzcYXmk8O4seosXiBH_js Message-ID: Subject: Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4 From: Linus Torvalds To: Dave Jones , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel , "the arch/x86 maintainers" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > > So it could be that I'm just generating a lot more load now. > I could drop that back down and see if it 'goes away' or at least > happens less, but it strikes me that there's something here that needs > fixing regardless. Oh, absolutely. It's more a question of "maybe what changed can give us a clue". But if it' something like "more load", that's not going to help pinpoint, and you might be better off just doing the all-cpu-backtrace thing and hope that gives some pattern to appreciate.. Linus -- 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/