Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752864AbaLDDqB (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2014 22:46:01 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:33686 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751567AbaLDDp7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2014 22:45:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 22:45:12 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , Chris Mason , Mike Galbraith , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=E2niel?= Fraga , Sasha Levin , "Paul E. McKenney" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , John Stultz Subject: Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4 Message-ID: <20141204034512.GA25065@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , Chris Mason , Mike Galbraith , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=E2niel?= Fraga , Sasha Levin , "Paul E. McKenney" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , John Stultz References: <20141203200906.GA3118@redhat.com> <20141203232115.GA13266@redhat.com> <20141204002044.GA15239@redhat.com> <20141204013200.GB17727@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141204013200.GB17727@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 08:32:00PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 01:59:01AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > Also, should I run it in isolation, with nothing else going on, > > > or under load where I see problems ? > > > > isolated is usually the best thing as it has the highest density of > > reads. > > Ok, it's been running for just over an hour with no 'fails' yet. > How long should I leave it ? Ok, I left it running for four hours with no observed failures. I'd leave it running longer, but I might not have this machine in the new year, so I'm running out of time to complete bisections if they take a day or two to complete each step. Dave -- 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/