Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756152AbaLWO5G (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:57:06 -0500 Received: from arcturus.aphlor.org ([188.246.204.175]:43574 "EHLO arcturus.aphlor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750983AbaLWO5E (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:57:04 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:56:33 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Chris Mason , Mike Galbraith , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=E2niel?= Fraga , Sasha Levin , "Paul E. McKenney" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Suresh Siddha , Oleg Nesterov , Peter Anvin , John Stultz Subject: Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4 Message-ID: <20141223145633.GF27965@codemonkey.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , Chris Mason , Mike Galbraith , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=E2niel?= Fraga , Sasha Levin , "Paul E. McKenney" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Suresh Siddha , Oleg Nesterov , Peter Anvin , John Stultz References: <20141221223204.GA9618@codemonkey.org.uk> <20141222225725.GA8140@codemonkey.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) X-Spam-Report: Spam report generated by SpamAssassin on "arcturus.aphlor.org" Content analysis details: (-2.9 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] X-Authenticated-User: davej@codemonkey.org.uk Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 03:59:19PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > But in the meantime please do keep that thing running as long as you > can. Let's see if we get bigger jumps. Or perhaps we'll get a negative > result - the original softlockup bug happening *without* any bigger > hpet jumps. It's been going for 18 hours, with just a bunch more of those hpet messages, all in the same range. I'll leave it go a few more hours, before I have to wipe it, but I've got feel-good vibes about this. Even if that patch isn't the solution, It seems like we're finally looking in the right direction. 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/